🧵 is thread: a spool of blue thread with a needle. It means sewing and crafts — tailoring, mending, quilting — and online it marks a thread: “🧵 1/12” at the start of a…
🧵 is thread: a spool of blue thread with a needle. It means sewing and crafts — tailoring, mending, quilting — and online it marks a thread: “🧵 1/12” at the start of a long multi-post story on X, Bluesky or Threads. It also means string and “hanging by a thread”. Added in Emoji 11.0 (2018). Craft set: 🪡 sewing needle, 🧶 yarn, 🪢 knot, 👗 dress.
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