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  2. The 20 best gifts for parents of all ages - AOL

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    10X Magnifying Glass with Light and Stand. $30 at Amazon. See 15 more. ... Even with glasses it can be harder to work on detailed projects like sewing and quilting as one gets older. This lighted ...

  3. Pick glass - Wikipedia

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    Pick glass. A pick glass also known as a piece glass is a magnifying glass helpful in counting thread count. It is used to determine the number of yarns in warp and weft in woven fabrics and courses and wales in knitted fabrics. [1] [2] Compact constructions of fabrics may have a higher thread count. That is also called "cloth count". [3]

  4. Magnifying glass - Wikipedia

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    A pen seen through a magnifying glass Jim Hutton as detective Ellery Queen, posing with a magnifying glass. A magnifying glass is a convex lens that is used to produce a magnified image of an object. The lens is usually mounted in a frame with a handle. A magnifying glass can be used to focus light, such as to concentrate the Sun's radiation to ...

  5. Task lighting - Wikipedia

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    Illuminating magnifier. Some task lights also come with built in magnifying glasses for detailed tasks. It is hard to overstate the benefits of having focused light alongside magnification for small, precise operations such as model building, sewing, or other high-detail activities.

  6. John Taylor Arms - Wikipedia

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    He used sewing needles and magnifying glasses to get a fine level of detail. A member of many printmaking societies, Arms served as president of the Society of American Graphic Artists. An educator, Arms wrote the Handbook of Print Making and Print Makers (1934) and did numerous demonstrations and lectures. [2]

  7. Magnification - Wikipedia

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    The postage stamp appears larger with the use of a magnifying glass. Stepwise magnification by 6% per frame into a 39-megapixel image. In the final frame, at about 170x, an image of a bystander is seen reflected in the man's cornea. Magnification is the process of enlarging the apparent size, not physical size, of something.