“Sewing clamps - sewing accessories with carpenter vice for attaching to the table, “various cushion shaped devices, with a box or a brick, or screwed to the table; sometimes instead of the cushion, to which the work is tightened, with clamp in the form of a bird” (Dal, Vladimir. Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language: in 4 volumes. M., 1991. v. IV)".
In Tula sewing clamps were made in the form of a box with soft cushion, sometimes with a drawer for needles, and with a clip in the form of a bird. Fabric was pinned with needles to sewing clamp with a pincushion, sewing clamps birds securely fixed fabric for manual stitching. Tula steel sewing clamps were expensive, only well-to-do peasant women and wealthy townswomen possessed them.

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