Needle and Bobbin Club

Cover of the Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, 1938. Cover of the Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, 1938.

The Needle and Bobbin Club was an organisation founded in the USA in 1916 by Gertrude Whiting, to promote and encourage research into all kinds of fabrics and textiles. The Club published a journal called The Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club.

The name of the Club originally applied to lace needles and bobbins, but soon the interests of the club were widened to include everything to do with weaving and embroidery. The Club’s early meetings were held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and they worked closely with the Museum’s textile department. In the first few years, Miss Frances Morris (associate curator of textiles, 1922-1929) was particularly active with the Club. As a result of this association, the Museum received many donations of early lace and embroidery. The Needle and Bobbin Club was disbanded in 1989.

Source: ANON (1965-1966). 'Fifty years of the Needle and Bobbin Club,' The Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, vol. 49, pp. 3-16. [available at: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/articles/nb65_50.pdf]

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