Sewing

A buckle is a type of fastening usually used on leather belts and shoes. Buckles can be adjusted, as the prong part of the buckle fits through a hole, and you can have many holes on a strap.

A button is a small, usually flat object that you use to keep your clothes shut. Buttons can be made of wood, metal shell or plastic. There is usually some holes through the button or a loop under the button so they can be stitched to your clothes. You fasten a button by passing it through a matching hole.

Crochet is a way of making cloth out of loops of yarn using a small hook. Crochet is different to knitting as there is only ever one loop at a time, while knitting has many loops along the knitting needle.

A cuff is a part of your clothing or a piece of jewelry or a restraint that goes around your wrist.

Embroidery is a way of placing stitches so they make patterns or pictures. The most common thing people embroider is flowers. Embroidery is often seen on clothes to make them look prettier, or as samplers to hang on the wall.

Fabric frays when it starts to come undone, and starts to turn back into the individual strands it was made from.

A fray is also a battle or fight, and is often used as a turn of phrase when you are about to go into the middle of some activity, eg "he stepped into the fray".

Knitting is a way to turn thread or yarn into cloth. Knitting consists of loops called stitches pulled through each other. The active stitches are held on a knitting needle until another loop can be passed through them.

Lapels are the folded parts of the collar of a jacket that sit on the front of the jacket.

Lapels are often used to pin flowers or other decorations to.

A measuring tape, or tape measure, is a flexible piece of tape that can be used to find out how big something is. Because you can bend it, you can measure things that are curved, like around your waist or around your head. You can't measure curves with something hard like a ruler.

A needle is a small piece of metal that is sharp at one end and has a hole, or eye, at the other end. You thread the needle using very fine cotton thread, and use the needle to stitch things together.

The type of needle that is used for giving injections is called a syringe.