Milliners or Straw needles used commonly for hat making but with a round eye are also used in smocking and basting.

These needles are used for embroidering the perfect bullion knot, cast-on bullion or drizzle stitch. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form.The _cfduid cookie collects and anonymizes End User IP addresses using a one-way hash of certain values so they cannot be personally identified.

Milliners needles are sometimes referred to as Straw needles and are traditionally used in hat making. We offer regular milliners in size 10 and assorted milliners needles in sizes 3 to size 9 and a pack containing size 5 to size 10. The needles are packed in lovely little, clear acrylic tubes with cork stopper and anti-tarnish paper, displayed in their beautiful colour coded cardboard packets which are too lovely to throw away. Please note that this will mean a delay in receiving your parcel as customs can take 1-2 weeks to process a parcel, though it is sometimes faster. Perfect for everyone but especially if you suffer from arthritis, carpal tunnel or just have long fingernails.Similar to Sharps but longer, Straws are fine hand sewing needles with a short round eye and a sharp point. A packet of John James British size 3 milliners needles enabling one to tackle any embroidery project, using any type of thread. x 60mm), sharp tip, 4 needles per pack, gold label superior polished finish – excellent for any process requiring a slightly heavier, super smooth and extra long needle, such as working bullion knots, pushing through deep padding, millinery etc. These beautiful quality needles are made in Hiroshima, which for over 300 years has been the needle making centre of Japan. Tulip Hiroshima hand sewing needles are of the finest quality, made to exacting standards which include more than 30 different manufacturing processes to ensure each needle is safe and finished to supreme excellence.