darning egg การใช้

Remember darning eggs, a wooden dealie you put in a sock and actually stitched up a hole?
Large cowry shells such as that of a " Cypraea tigris " have been used in Europe in the recent past as a darning egg over which sock heels were stretched.
The'problems'from textbooks included both tool management skills, and assignments to turn objects such as gavels, darning eggs, boxes, trays, candlesticks, lamps, and legs for furniture.
"While I worked on the face, " said Courtier, " the body supported a head that looked like a giant darning egg without any features except a peg for the nose ."
Large cowry shells such as that of this species were used in Europe in the recent past as a frame over which sock heels were stretched for darning, i . e . instead of using a darning egg.