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04-19-2011, 06:34 PM
#62
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: louisville, kentucky
Posts: 431
I have one it is for turning things like spaghetti straps for dresses, I've used it plenty. The hook grabs the fabric at the top ridgr and the hook stays up and you don't catch your hook and it pulls through smoothly.
04-19-2011, 06:46 PM
#63
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Ohio
Posts: 1,299
Not a button hook, I have some of those and that is not what it looks like. Not a latch hook cause they don't have the extra spring thing on it. Not a knitting machine needle (I have one) because that wouldn't have a handle or that spring on it, and it would have to have a raised part to catch the carriage. I think it might have been used like a crochet hook, someone once gave me a device, more modern than that one looks that you could use like a crochet hook and it had a plastic part half way down that controlled how much yarn you would pull by controlling how far you were able to go into the stitch.
08-07-2011, 10:19 PM
#65
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Eden, Utah; originally NY
Posts: 357
Originally Posted by firebird
My grandmother used one of these to repair runs in nylon stockings during WWII. She was paid quite well as nylons were expensive. I remember watching my mother use it as well to do the same. We have sure gotten spoiled with pantyhose being so inexpensive to buy. Wish I had my mother's tool, just for memories.
I, too, remember the days when we had our precious nylon stockings mended during WWII. (If you didn't mend the nylon, you soon were wearing rayon, and those were UGLY!!) We took them to JCPenney's where they had several girls doing the mending. They would stretch the run in the stocking over a small glass like a cream cheese glass, and were very fast at their work, moving the hook rapidly up and down to catch the stitches. Quite an art! And it really was appreciated during the war.
