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A Bodkin is shaped like an oversized sewing needle with a blunt point and large eye and is used to pull a drawstring through a fabric casing- an essential to clothes fastenings for centuries.
When most clothes were laced, bodkins were essential tool for dressing. This is a luxury item in which to store bodkins
Cylindrical ivory bodkin case decorated with concentric creating a segmented appearance
