[Bonetools] bone details with screw thread

[Heidi Luik]

Thank you very much for this useful information.
Best wishes,
Heidi


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Teema: Re: [Bonetools] bone details with screw thread
Kellele: bonetools at listserv.niif.hu
Reply-To: Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the	study of object and waste of bone,	antler. ivory and horn. <bonetools at listserv.niif.hu>

> Hi
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> Just one more comment -- I don't know when they started being able to
> mechanically carve screw threads in bone, but there's a photo of a
> screw-threaded late 17th century bone needle case from Boston with screw
> threads in Mary C. Beaudry's 2006 "Findings: the material culture of 
> needlework
> and sewing"(p. 78), Yale University Press.
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> Jan
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> Dept. of Anthropology,
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> Quoting Heidi Luik :
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> > Dear Katherine,
> >
> > Thank you very much. Yes, it is possible, they have quite similar
> > shape. But I am just wondering why should these bobbins have screw
> > thread? I add two pictures from van Vilstern's book (sorry for the
> > bad quality), no 122 there is a bobbin, and it does not have screw
> > thread. No 120 is a pincushion holder, which has a detail with screw
> > thread. But what it is interesting: when they started to cut these
> > screw threads into bone (and probably also wooden) artefacts? As I
> > understand it is not possible with simple turning lathe but needs
> > some special lathe (thread milling cutter?). (I am sorry, maybe I do
> > not use right expressions for these things in English)
> >
> > Heidi
> >
> >
> > At 14:55 29.03.2011, you wrote:
> >> Dear Heidi: These are almost certainly bobbins for making lace on a
> >> pillow, and similar pieces are still in use all over the world (though
> >> many of them are heirlooms).  Dating them or their use based on
> >> manufacture would be problematic.
> >>
> >> Good luck with this though,
> >>
> >> Kate Moore
> >>
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> >> Quoting Heidi Luik :
> >>
> >>> Dear all,
> >>>
> >>> My colleague from Tartu asked me about some small bone details with
> >>> screw thread. These probably come from the 18th-20th century
> >>> context. I have some similar pieces from Tallinn also. In Tallinn
> >>> they are from mixed layer, but 18th-19th century looks most likely
> >>> here too. My colleague would like to know if such objects could have
> >>> earlier date also, and when screw thread cutter was introduced. I
> >>> hope maybe some of you has more experience with such things or maybe
> >>> you can suggest some publications about the topic.
> >>> (I have found some similar objects in the book: Vilsteren, V. T. van
> >>> 1987. Het Benen Tijdperk. Gebruiksvoorwerpen van been, gewei, hoorn
> >>> en ivoor 10.000 jaar geleden tot heden. Drents Museum, Assen.)
> >>> In the attachment are some photos of such objects.
> >>>
> >>> Thank you in advance,
> >>> Heidi
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