the.com/seam ripper
The tiny sword that admits your sewing mistake before anyone else can.
means A small hand tool with a curved, forked blade used to cut and pull out stitches without damaging the surrounding fabric.
from A straightforward compound of 'seam' (the joining line of stitches, from Old English 'seam,' meaning a junction or suture) and 'ripper' — one who rips, from Middle English 'rippen,' meaning to tear or slash open. The tool itself is a modern sewing-notion invention, its name simply describing its one grim job: undoing what thread has done.
- real name
- officially called a stitch ripper
- sharp part
- the curved blade, not the ball tip
- ball tip purpose
- stops it from slicing fabric too
- ironic truth
- used more than the sewing machine itself