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how a bobbin works

Friday 14 December 2007 | 3 cookies in the jar

I dare you not to find this as mesmerizing and hypnotic as I do. Go on.
bobbin up and down, up and down....

Also curious are the competing versions of its creator’s inspirational dream. You hear most often that inventor Elias Howe, frustrated by his inability to mechanize sewing, fell asleep and dreampt that cannibals in Africa put him in in a cauldron of boiling water, and whenever he would attempt to escape from the pot, they would stab him back into it with their spears. Upon awakening, Howe remembered that their spears had holes in their tips; et voilá. But the version told us by Walt Whitman in workshop this semester was that it weren’t no spears they were pokin’ him back in the pot with. I think a dream about spears is phallic enough; but never mind. The point (ar ar) is that, erm, is that, well, yes, what is the point? that racist dreams help white inventors globalize the third world and enslave poor women into factory labor?

Don’t think about that now. Just…stare…at…bobbin….

3 cookies in the jar

  1. krista said on Saturday 15 Dec 2007 at 1.21 am:

    I am bouncing around the net with insomnia tonight, then I came here. Oh, the bobbin…

  2. unnarrator said on Saturday 15 Dec 2007 at 1.22 pm:

    I know, isn’t the bobbin amazing?! We love the bobbin….

  3. mandarin said on Sunday 16 Dec 2007 at 9.54 am:

    One of my life’s greatest mysteries elucidated. Can’t stop looking.


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