Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1911 — The Home Dresser. [ARTICLE]

The Home Dresser.

For the at home dressmaker there are no pins so handy u the homemade “red heads.” They are made In the following way: Take a package of No. 8 needles, melt a little red sealing wax and dip the head end* of the needles in and shape the lump of wax so as to form a fair-sized head, and stick them on a cushion to harden. They are excellent to pin work or patterns in place, and are so much sharper than the ordinary pins, also longer. They are thinner, too, and do not leave such large holes in the finer materials. These are used by southern women, and the idea is original with Many people who sew a great deal make up two or three papers of these needles at a time, but they last well and do not seem to get lost or have the natural depravity credited to the everyday pin.