Hand Sewing Needles
Choosing the most suitable hand sewing needle for your sewing task will ensure a pleasurable experience and best results of finished work. Using the wrong type of sewing needle is one of the most common mistakes sewers of all abilities make. It can lead to needle breakage, difficulty working with the chosen fabric and poor stitch quality. It will also cause undue wear on the needles, which will affect the needles performance, a bad experience for you and ultimately affect the quality of the finished work. It’s all to do with choosing the right needle for the sewing task and material at hand.
Remember, as a general rule; the smaller the number the bigger the needle.
The choice of needle size is also relative to the type and size of thread. For example, crewel yarn will require a much larger needle than a 80wt cotton, because crewel yarn is a lot thicker than 80wt cotton thread. The needle should be the right size to allow the thread to pass through the fabric with minimal abrasion, but not so large that the needle leaves a noticeable hole around the thread.
Tulip Hiroshima Hand Sewing Needles
Tulip Hiroshima needles are of the finest quality and made to exacting standards which include more than 30 different manufacturing processes to ensure each needle is safe and finished to supreme excellence. Tulip needles are well known globally for their smooth fabric piercing ability. They feature a strong and durable steel body with just the right amount of flexibility which are resistant to breaking. Tulip’s needle eyes are beautifully made, with a large ideal shape (relating to the size of needle, while not hindering the needle shape) and grinded to perfection, resulting in a clean head with no bulges to prevent snagging and allow for easier threading. Tulip Hiroshima offer 76 different types of sewing needles and proud to offer a ‘needle for every need’.
The production of needle-making stretches back 300 years in Hiroshima, Japan. Initially spread as piecework for low-ranking samurai to support themselves. Since it’s humble beginnings there has been huge advancements in product quality, manufacturing and production efficiency. Since 1979, Tulip’s original cutting edge ‘cutting, grinding and polishing’ technology has been applied with the demand for high precision and miniaturisation. Tulip’s craftsmen aim to provide high-quality needles by blending traditional techniques passed down from generations and cutting-edge technologies available today.
Tulip Hiroshima Needles fall into the following three categories;
Nickel Plated & Gold-Plated Eye – Needles are made of steel, and the entire needle is coated in Nickel to prevent corrosion and rust and create a smooth finish. The needle eye is then coated in gold, the visual change in colour helps with threading the needle. These are marked with the original coloured Tulip logo on the packaging box.
Nickel Plated – Needles are made of steel, and the entire needle is coated in Nickel to prevent rust to create a smooth finish. These are marked with the original coloured Tulip logo on the packaging box.
Superior Polished Finish – The unique technique by Tulip Hiroshima is to polish each needle lengthwise along the needle in streaks to reduce the surface contact with the fabric. This results in an ultra-smooth needle which glides through fabrics with ease. These are marked with a gold Tulip logo and ‘Superior Polished Finish’ written on the packaging box. These are not Nickel-plated, use these needles if you have a Nickel allergy.
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