Good Afternoon,
My name is Bob Harper, I live in Brockville Ontario Canada. I have been collecting thimbles for over 26 years and presently have 1,926 thimbles in my collection. I have been told it is probably the largest private collection in Canada. I would like to reach 5,000 thimbles in the next few years, if you know of anyone wanting to sell their thimbles could please give them my email address. I do not buy from ebay!!!
Thanks,
Bob
I started collecting thimbles when I was about 10 years old. I was young enough that I have a hard time remembering how old exactly but I have built a credible collection since that time.
My collection is composed mostly of travel thimbles, although I did recently inherit a thimble from my Grandmother. I also have a set of thimbles representing each President the United States has had (not pictured). But my true passion lies in travel and antique thimbles. My parents have brought about half of my collection to me from from their travels.
I have thimbles from South America, North America, Europe and Africa. My collection represents over 22 countries and about 33 of the 50 United States. When I began collecting I would pick up any thimble I saw. As I have gotten older I have started to try and refine my choices to higher quality travel thimbles that either have an interesting design or are more than a porcelain thimble with a transfer on them. I have some thimbles from the 2002 Olympics, which form a favorite of mine. Some other favorites include a pewter stein from Germany,a silver thimble from Peru and a thimble from Greece that depicts scenes from the Odyssey.
I started a blog about a year ago intending to catalog my collection, I haven't gotten very far but I hope that will change soon! I am glad to have found an online community of thimble collectors, particularly as I have never met another collector in real life!
Cara
The Digitabulist
In Thimbles of the World you can also show your exchange propositions, give some information about your exchange preferences and links to photos/descriptions of your thimbles.
So, let me start the exchange topic!
You can see my current propositions in the checker below:
I am the most interested in thimbles:
- hand-painted,
- made of original materials,
- porcelain with signatures,
- from countries that I do not already have in my collection.
I am not interested in thimbles:
- with flagues, cities or countries,
- ceramics or porcelain with transfers produced in larger quantities.
You can always check currently offered thimbles (pictures and descriptions) at My Thimble Collection blog and remind my exchange preferences via the Exchange section. If you would like to exchange send your propositions.
Since 1997 I have collected thimbles. Souvenir thimbles, that is. Instead of bringing home loads of souvenirs that will just be stuffed in boxes and stored after awhile, I found that a thimble collection would be much better. They are small and easy to bring home, and put together, they are also decorative.
I love travelling, and my collection is slowly growing. Friends and family have found that a thimble is a great gift when they are out travelling to, so I have two displays in my living room – one with thimbles from places where I have actually been myself, and one with contribution from others.
The sad thing is, that I started collecting 'so late in life'. I am missing thimbles from several places I will hardly visit again, such as Seychelles, Mauritius, Bangladesh, China and Bulgaria.
This is a great site – and if anyone reading this actually have souvenir thimbles form any of the countries mentioned above, and are willing to sell them to me, please contact me on my blog.
Greetings from Norway!!!
Merete
Hello,
My name is Marga, I am from Barcelona-Spain and I began to collect thimbles in 1998. It was by chance, I bought a Princess Elisabeth "Sissi" thimble in the beautiful city of Vienna. I habe been collecting thimbles since then.
I like all kind of thimbles, made of different materials. I am used to buy some thimbles when I go abroad and my friends are used to buy thimbles for me too.
Nowadays. I buy thimbles from well know porcelain patterns, for instance: Caverswall, Linder, Mayfair and so on.
You can see my thimbles collection
at Dedales de Marga and contact me via Facebook.
DEDALES DE MARGA
You are welcome to take a look.
Today I would like to introduce Zuleykha from Great Britain - the girl who creates awesome polymer clay thimbles in a millefiori technique.
I can honestly recommend these wonders, because I checked it by myself. Below you can see thimbles which Zuleyka prepared especially for me. I have chosen two specimens: one with sheep in sunflowers and second with a frog sitting at the top of the thimble dotted with rose
Thimbles have been hand-sculpted, baked, sanded and covered with a gloss glaze for protection. I think it is obligatory position for every collector. Thimbles are made very precisely, patterns and colour are beautiful and matched perfectly. I hope that my photos will show beauty of these little things at least to a certain degree.
You can find Zuleyka on Etsy, eBay or - simply - via her blog!
Agnieszka
Thimbles of the World
Hello!
I am Maria from Salamanca (Spain), I have been collecting thimbles since 2006. My collection is not very big because I do not want to have thousends of thimbles, I just want to have a few thimbles from each country. I create my own thimbles as well, I think they're cute =)
Visit my blog where you request more information if you are interested at owning one of them.
Greeting from Spain and have a nice day!
Maria
Hello :)))
I collect thimbles, just like you. My collection is not very big yet, but still something new comes along. First I planned to collect usable thimbles, but in time also decorative ones started to appear.
There are various thimbes in my collection, silver one, leather, wooden, metal and porcelain thimbles. Each of them tells a story, I will share them with you.
I am really happy to be here with You :))
My friends,
There was a mistake on the blog. Thimbles of the World banners put on the righ side were leading to - also very attractive - blog of my collection. I am sorry for difficulties and little confusion. Codes are already fixed, so I would like to ask those of you who have placed banners into their web sites or blogs to replace them and warmly encourage those who did not do that yet to get our banners!
Agnieszka
Hello! My name is Anastasia. I live in Russia (in Moscow). I collect thimbles 2 years. In my collection thimbles basically Russian national crafts (Gzhel, Mstera, Paleh, Enamel, Zhestovo). Their big part wooden, are ornamented by paints.
Nastya
I am in Cornwall on the west coast of the UK. I have been collecting thimbles for just a little over 3 years. I also have a blog Simply Thimbles. I started the blog in 2009 hoping to find like minded people who also collect thimbles.
My collection started with a little brown bear. He was the first thimble I ever bought as he was just so cute.
I have around 300 thimbles now. Some are bone china, some are silver and some are plastic. Most of them I have purchased myself, a few have been given to me. I also have a couple of rusty ones which look awful but I could never part with as they were my mothers.
Thank you for the invitation. I hope that there are more people joining soon as it is really good to hear from other thimble collectors and to see the lovely examples from other parts of the world.
Olly
Two days ago Yanibela adswered my request and has joned Thimbles of the World. Today I would like to start a new topic - presenting places where you can find thimbles and people who create them. That is why I thought that Thimbles of the World should not be only a place when you can show your collection, but also a place where you can find interesting new items and exchange thimbles as well.
Yanibela is 30 years old and she lives in Uruguay's capital - Montevideo, in South America. She offers hand-painted thimbles, so if you do not have Uruguayan specimens in your collection, please check Yanibela's blog.
Agnieszka
Thimbles of the World
My name is Agnieszka and I come from Poland. I am the founder of this blog and the digitabulist since 2004 and since that time I have been also looking for a place where collectors from all over the world can interchange their experiences conected with thimble collecting, place where they would share their knowledge, disscuss and make thimble exchange with each other. So, wecome to Thimbles of the World and let me start with a post about my collection.
My first thimble was a gift from my father. It was almost five years ago. He brought me from his Hungarian trip a little, porcelain gem made by Hollohaza manufacture. For a long time it was only a single gadget standing on my shelf. At that time I did not have an idea that there are some larger collections of such useless objects. Because, obviously, a thimble made of porcelain or glass cannot be used according to thimble's proper function.
Later, it turned out that besides typical, metal or plastic creations helpful in sewing or embroidery, amazing masterpieces exist; including wooden, glass, stone, ceramic, hand-painted, kilned, decorated with golden pigments thimbles and also those completely unlike classic thimbles - fugurines...
Currently, I have 937 thimbles in my collection. They come from four continents and over thirty countries. Please, visit my blog dedicated to thimbles. You will find there information about my collection, about concrete thimbles, manufactures and signatures. Surely, many plots are conected with porcelain, because of the fact that a majority of thimbles in my collection is made of porcelain.
Now, it is your turn! Join Thimbles of the World and help us create the best thimble collectors' web site!
Agnieszka
My Thimble Collection
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