Abstract: A method of embroidery on a fabric and an embroidery tool enable the production in a simple manner of decorative effect on knitted or other garments. The tool has a tubular needle portion with a handle at one end and a closed curved point at the other. The handle has an entry aperture for continuous work material such as yarn, which passes from the entry aperture through a smooth duct in the tool to an exit aperture formed on the convex surfaces of the curved end adjacent the point. The method of embroidery using the tool comprises the initial steps of passing the point, carrying a loop of yarn, through the fabric from the front to the rear and back again at a different location, the handle remaining at the front, and the repeated steps of retaining the loop of yarn at the front while withdrawing the point from the fabric, and then passing the point, carrying a fresh loop of yarn, through the previous loop, and then through the fabric as before.

Abstract: A safety-pin (1,22,38) of a conventional kind is provided with a sheath (2,23,39) made as a unitary moulding of plastics or like material. The sheath is slidable between a release state, in which it does not prevent the pin being opened and closed at will, and a locking state in which it does prevent the pin being opened from a closed state. To this end the sheath has barring means, comprising one or more abutments (15,30,41), which obstruct a movable limb (4) of the pin. Each abutment has an inclined face (16,31,42) which engages the end (21) of the cap (6) of the pin, while the sheath is being pushed onto the cap during a first stage of assembly, and causes the barring means to move resiliently aside from its normal position. During a later stage of assembly the barring means returns resiliently to substantially its normal position. Any attempt to pull the sheath off the cap is positively resisted by engagement between the abutment or abutments and the cap.