What’s This Small Marble-Like Object That Caught People’s Attention?

if you’re fancy—that you shove into a sock with a hole in it. Not for decoration or to hold down papers, but to pull the fabric taut and give yourself a solid surface to stitch against. The hole was pulled tight, you stitched it, and your socks lived to fight another day. People didn’t just throw socks away back then; they repaired them, because you only had so many pairs

and there was no fast-fashion store down the street.

And no, it’s not like there was only one style of these things either. They came in all types: mushroom-shaped ones,