An edge of eyelets is very handsome on a collar and cuff set or handkerchief.
Yet such unconscious selections, made from time to time in generation after generation, have sufficed to produce at last all the beautiful spots and metallic eyelets of our loveliest English or tropical butterflies.
The brass eyelets can be obtained from any ironmonger at about fourpence per box, and pinchers for closing them can be borrowed from an ironmonger or a shoemaker.
A strip of linen should be sewn to the sail along the line of the eyelet-holes, in order to give the brass eyelets a better grasp.
McCausland contracted his beady eyelets till they shone like two pin punctures in a lighted jack-o'-lantern.
These eyelets are meant to hold the "stays" which keep the masts steady.
The first process here is that of the ensign lacing machine, which puts a strong twine through the eyelets and ties it in an accurate manner.
The eyelets are next added by a machine which places them in both sides of the shoe at the same time and directly opposite each other, this operation finishing the upper part of the shoe.
Attach the scabbard by passing its lower end through the loop provided on the side of the haversack body, then engage the double-hook attachment in the eyelets on the outer flap on the haversack, inserting the hooks from the inside.
Eyelets are punched with a stiletto or sharp point, and are worked like a buttonhole, only perfectly round.
Eyelets were made by some girls, in the front of their middy waists.
Some of the girls, those who worked rapidly, made eyelets at the front of the middy and laced the middy.
Work the ribbed band witheyelets as given for Front.
Thread through eyelets at top and finish with tassels as illustrated.
Thread ribbon through eyelets at ankle and tie as illustrated.
With (P) buttonhole around the eyelets in border at hem, sleeves and collar.
Make a twisted cord and thread through eyelets at ankle.
Four: pieces of leather which are laced together by means of eyelets and shoe laces.
Illustration: The Wire Prevents the Lace from Raveling and Makes a Tip for Easily Entering the Eyelets (Fig.
The eyelets SS are necessary, as they make it impossible for the pulley to run off the string.
It is necessary to have extra eyelets at one end of the canvas to adjust it to varying widths of seats.
The seat is made of a strip of canvas with eyelets for wire hooks that fit over the arms of the ordinary theater chair.
Eyelets of osiers set in the wall are also exceptional, and their use is problematical.
They were held in place in the door opening by jambs made of mortar laid on sticks, and by a horizontal rod which passed between two osier eyelets set in the uprights of the door-frame and projecting from it.
May be had varnished, mounted on stout linen, with eyelets for fastening on walls, 10d.
May be had also, mounted on cardboard and varnished, with eyelets and tape for hanging, 8d.
May be had also mounted on Canvas and Varnished, with eyelets for fastening to the wall, 10d.
Have you ever seen canvas tarpaulins or rubber blankets with brass eyelets set in along the edges?
Then imagine a piece of stout canvas, some four and one-half feet in length, with large and heavy brass eyelets running down both edges.
Cut the overboot laces and fold the lacingeyelets flat outwards.
Step on the toe and heel eyelets to hold the overboot on the ground and have the patient step out of it.
Run the stay ropes from the eyelets in the circular cover to stakes (Fig.
Eyelets for Belts [432] If eyelets, such as used in shoes, are put into the lace holes of a belt, the belt will last much longer.
Get them eight inches high; supplied with very large eyelets part way, then the heaviest hooks, finishing with two more eyelets at the top.
Ventilators, which range in size from eyelets to holes ¾ inch in diameter, are necessary to permit the passage of air through the interior of the mattress.
In this way the warp threads that pass through the eyelets that are connected to the hooks are raised.
But running horizontally across the hooks there are “needles” or rods with eyelets or bends in them through which the hooks pass.
There are rubber blankets made with eyelets along the edges so that two can be tied together to make a tent; but they are heavier, more expensive, and not much if any better; and you will need other rubber blankets to lie upon.
Eyelets along the edges, perhaps to receive crotals as in Figs.
Bronze open-mouthed vessel, with six projecting eyelets round the neck, and a handle.
Aegis of bronze, representing a horse's head; edged with eyelets probably for suspending crotals, similar to Fig.
Crotals have probably been suspended from the eyelets below, as indicated by the eight links of chains left remaining (see Plate XIX, Fig.
Small crotals with chains hang from the eyelets on the edge of the aegis.
The representation of European screw-heads forms part of the ornamentation, and raised eyelets alternate with the screw-head ornaments.
Sometimes eyelets are inserted into a punched hole by means of a small machine which a girl works by hand.
For some work eyelets are then punched, and in the best work the edges are bevelled by a little machine consisting of a wheel in a trough, along which the edge is pushed.
At all points where a strain is likely to come on the canvas-namely, at the corners and at places where eyelets for ropes have to come, it is best to have a strengthening patch of canvas sewn over the other canvas.
The upright poles are six feet high; each of these is fitted with an iron cap and spike at the top to fit the eyelets of the ridge-pole.
Then you want a sheet of light canvas, or waterproofed linen, to form your tent, six feet square, witheyelets or loops along the sides.
After being tied respectively to the gaff and foresail, they pass through small holes in the mast, down to eyelets screwed into the bulwarks on each side of the mast.
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