3. We come now to give some Examples of Taylors Tools, or Instruments of working: which in themselves are but few in number, though thereby most rich and costly Apparels are made: and being the fewer, the less fear there is of a Taylors breaking, for to be an unthrift and so run away he may, but break he cannot: for at the next Town he comes too, he is set up again, if he have but a Needle, Thimble his Goose and Shears.
Tailors shears
XXXIII. He beareth a pair of Taylors
Shears, or Cizars, opened Salter wise between, a
Taylors and a Semsters Thimbles.
Tailors thimble and seamsters thimble
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Tailors pressing Iron and needle
XXXIV. He beareth a Taylors pressing
Iron, surmounted of a Needle, with a Thred in the
Eye thereof.
Wool shears
XXXV. He beareth a pair of Wool
Shears, transposed, (some term them Sheep-Shears) between a Taylors Scorer, and his
Bodkin, Handles or Haft.
Scorer
The Scorer, is a round piece of Iron plate fixed in another long piece slit in the middle like the neck
of a Spur, in which the round is fastned that it cannot
move; the long Iron is after fastned in a round handle,
or Haft, or Halve, to hold the better, with this Taylors
score, or make an impression or mark on Cloth before
they venture to cut it.
Bodkin
Image from published plateThe Bodkin, is a blade or round Pin of Iron fixed in a Halve, it is not very sharp at the end: by its help, is Eye lid holes, and all other holes (which are not very large) made.
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