Embroidery equipment

thumb|A pair of standard scissors thumb|A video showing scissors being used to cut a piece of card stock Scissors or shears are hand-operated cutting tools that consists of a pair of pivoting blades whose sharpened edges slide firmly against and past each other when the handles (shank) on the opposite side of the pivot are squeezed shut, causing the target material in between the blades to be divided by the combined effort of both cutting and shearing. Scissors are usually used for cutting thin materials such as paper, cardboard, metal foil, cloth, rope and wire, although a large variety of sc

elongated, thin tool made ​​of hard material used for sewing

thumb|A thimble thumb| (Thimblemaker) from by Jost Amman, 1568

right|250px|thumb|'Banarasi sari' from [[Varanasi (Banaras), silk and gold-wrapped silk yarn with supplementary weft brocade (zari)]]

tool for holding fabric taut during embroidery

Device to put thread through a needle