[lace-chat] mystery tool
Since things are quiet, does anyone have any idea what this item is? http://cgi.ebay.com/Bone-Button-Hook-Or-Lace-Tool_W0QQitemZ7386996504 Search the item number or put in the words lace tool hook. Happy Mother's Day -- in the USA. Alice in Oregon To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] mystery tool
It could be a hook for making rag rugs. It has a fairly square shaped hook similar to the rug hook I have. Obviously hand make a perhaps made larger than normal for someone who had difficulty in holding the normally much slimmer handle of a shop-bought hook. Malvary in Ottawa - Original Message - From: "Alice Howell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2006 10:53 AM Subject: [lace-chat] mystery tool Since things are quiet, does anyone have any idea what this item is? http://cgi.ebay.com/Bone-Button-Hook-Or-Lace-Tool_W0QQitemZ7386996504 Search the item number or put in the words lace tool hook. Happy Mother's Day -- in the USA. Alice in Oregon To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] mystery tool
U, right off hand I am tempted to call it an afficot (used to burnish threads in a finished piece of needlelace). The hook at the end is a bit of a puzzler but perhaps that is an artifact of a prior break in the bone. On the other hand, you could make a case for it being a primitive shoe horn. In case a "shoe horn" goes by a different name in other countries, it is just a devise you put in the back of a tight fitting shoe, between your heel and the shoe, which acts to let your foot slip in more easily. Other opinions are more than welcome! May your threads never tangle, Cindy Cindy Hutton Norfolk, Virginia USAwhere I am finding the taste of nearly raw "soft-boiled" eggs served by my 12 year old for a surprise Mother's Day breakfast is finally fadingSalmonella anyone? :) Since things are quiet, does anyone have any idea what this item is? http://cgi.ebay.com/Bone-Button-Hook-Or-Lace-Tool_W0QQitemZ7386996504 Happy Mother's Day -- in the USA. Alice in Oregon To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] mystery tool
I'm inclined to think that it's an afficot, smooth for burnishing and with a hook to tease out raised parts of the lace. Malvary's suggestion of a rug hook is possible though - for making rag rugs where the fabric is poked through canvas rather than hooked rugs for which a latch hook is usually used. I don't think it's a shoe horn; the sort you see in shoe shops are about twice as wide, and thinner, and it's not a button hook, they were made of metal and needed to be more 'hooked' to get around the buttons. That's my two penn'th for what it's worth Brenda Since things are quiet, does anyone have any idea what this item is? http://cgi.ebay.com/Bone-Button-Hook-Or-Lace-Tool_W0QQitemZ7386996504 Brenda http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/ To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
