Merchant and Mills

No end of labelling and tagging uses for these tradition long pins with spiked end.

We have taken the favourites from our pin range and put them all together for a smashing gift for yourself or someone you really love. As if that weren’t enough we’ve made the set cheaper than buying individual boxes and are giving away the box! • Dressmaking Pins • Entomology Pins • Black Bulb Pins • Glass Headed Pins • Small Black Safety Pins

A little black box full of best dressmaking pins – 32mm x 0.65mm. Weight 28g or 1oz.

Multi-coloured glass headed pins – easy to find in fabric! 30mm x 0.60mm

Merchant & Mills are proud to have sourced the finest, blackest pins known to man. For butterflies and fine fabrics, these are irresistible.  38mm x 0.45mm

Traditional lace making pins that were originally colour coded for following a pattern but we like them just in flame red! 0.59mm x 26mm (approx 200 pins)

21mm long and like safety pins but with a wide bowl at the bottom for tags etc. Already pear shaped so nothing can go wrong.

A tidy amount, or boxful, of tiny (23mm) fine, black safety pins for all your safety pinning needs, except the big ones.

Another unusual find for us, thoroughly nostalgic and eminently useful they will enrich all your safety pinning activities. (28mm)

Traditional French safety pins with no coil to catch on threads or weave, so ideal for knitters and sewists alike. These little golden beauties are a rare find, at 24mm they are small and perfectly formed.

These traditional toilet pins are an unusual pin being quite long at 45mm. Before the button became commonplace, many clothes were pinned together and a lady would have pins on her dressing table. The toilet pins come from and era when one would need pins for hats, corsage,etc. These are made in Spain and used to pin together layers of very thick fabrics – particularly useful in curtain making.

Whilst you’re busy making things or looking the other way, naughty pins have a tendency to make for the floor. Now you can summon them home with a quick swipe of this little magnet.