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Steel Thread Hooks

Tiny 0.5–1.75 mm hooks for thread lace, doilies and jewellery-scale work.

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Materials

Definition

Steel hooks are fine, hard hooks sized in fractions of a millimetre, made for crochet cotton and thread rather than yarn.

Overview

Their sizing runs backwards to yarn hooks — a higher steel number means a smaller hook, which trips up newcomers to lace.

Thread work at this scale needs good light and short sessions more than it needs skill.

Characteristics

  • 0.5–1.75 mm range
  • Reverse numbering
  • Rigid
  • Essential for thread lace

Typical uses

  • Doilies
  • Irish and filet lace
  • Wire crochet
  • Miniatures
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Treated natural fibre

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Tool

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