#bodkins

[vinceaddams]

Hey.

Hey.

You don't need to use a safety pin to thread elastic through that channel.

There's a tool for that, called a bodkin, which works better than a safety pin. There's even a variety of different kinds.

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[ltwilliammowett]

Scrimshawed bodkins, scrimshawed by a sailor, 19th century

Used for making lace, making holes in fabric or leather, and many other seamstress tasks, bodkins were often made by sailors as gifts to bring home for mothers and sisters and sweethearts.

[roughridingrednecks]

Bodkins

[joe-ffc]

Bodkins. For threading straps or elastic through fabric tubes.

[ltwilliammowett]

Whaling Sailors Fid's and Bodkin’s made of whale bone, 1800's

[frimleyblogger]

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  Gadzooks and Odds Bodkins

These are two forms of exclamations or mild oaths.

In days of yore our forefathers were more prurient than we are today in their use of language, particularly when they were sorely tested or irritated. A whole host of euphemisms – what are termed minced oaths – were developed to assist people to have a good old swear without running the risk of blaspheming by directly…

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[aloofshahbanou]

bodkins replied to your quote: reminds me of newness and the tenderness of being...

dominant affect 2k12-2k13. what will next year bring??

more tenderness, this time driven by an honesty we've never quite known before

[aloofshahbanou]

bodkins replied to your post: Buffy Sainte-Marie  Joni Mitchell Neil Young ...

LCohen and Drake. Why does Canada get all the men willing to talk abt emotional complexities?

ugh, both of these men mean so much to me, and I fucking mean it