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Show Making fine aud Keedtes. Metal pins weru introduced into Eng. laud from France in 1543. .Within a short time after machines "were constructed con-structed in England for the manufacture of pins. "Previously they had been filed to a point and the head had been soldered by hand. Great opposition was made to the novelty," eays Felkin, "but utility and cheapness prevailed in its faTor. The common sewing needle was brought hither from India after the discovery of tbe route by the Cape of Good Hope. Before that time sewing was performed in the method still used by shoemaker." |