{"id":1027,"date":"2019-04-09T17:28:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T17:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2019-04-17T15:23:03","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T15:23:03","slug":"more-wool-holder-gauges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/more-wool-holder-gauges\/","title":{"rendered":"More Wool-holder Gauges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I don’t know how many wool-holders, with gauges, there ever were. I have four more types (in addition to beehives<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These are hard plastic. On the bottom they say BEX Made in England<\/em>. The needle slits are for sizes 7 to 14. There is no other information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t know how many colours were made. Three of these have their original cord straps, and are completely undamaged. They must have been very robust. I have read that these are older than any of the wool-holders with plastic straps as plastic ribbon was was not invented until the mid 1940s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These two are not exactly alike but I think they are from the same manufacturer. Underneath the yellow one it says Needle Gauge Patents Applied For<\/em>; the red one says Needle Gauge Patent No. 108383<\/em>, so is obviously of a slightly later date, after the patent had been granted. Both have needle slits from 5 to 12. They appear to be made from different types of plastic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They open into two equal sized parts, unlike all my other wool-holders which open near the top or near the bottom. The hole, for the wool to go through, is on the side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Three acorns. The red and dark green are exactly alike. They say Needle Gauge Made in England U-PLAS<\/em>. the holes are sizes 9 to 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lighter green says Needle Gauge Regd Made in England<\/em> but there is no manufacturer’s name. The arrangement of holes is the same as the others and the strap is similar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These are a very different type. The plastic is flexible and the bottom is attached by a hinge. It fastens with a tiny knob which fits into a slot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Underneath it says Needle Gauge H.W. 1257 NB WARE MADE IN ENGLAND. <\/em>This is the same manufacturer as the beehives but with a different model number. The company that made them was NB Mouldings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both have their original plastic ribbon straps. The hole sizes are 6 to 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is where they usually live along with some other wool-holders that do not have gauges.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know how many wool-holders, with gauges, there ever were. I have four more types (in addition to beehives). Above These are hard plastic. On the bottom they say BEX Made in England. The needle slits are for sizes 7 to 14. There is no other information. I don’t know how many colours were …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42],"tags":[33,21,34,26,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1089,"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mentalblocks.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}