Tudey

It's a pattern tracing wheel

Sandy-lou

I still use mine from the sixties, beats tailors tacking when making anthing that is shaped or needing darts.

Marvlin

This is an old tracing wheel used with carbon like paper. The paper used to come in colors, white, red, yellow maybe even black. We used these wheels to mark darts on sewing fabrics. You would place the carbon like paper, bolded, between your two pattern pieces and trace the dart from the top of the pattern, marking both sides at the same time, etc. I haven't seen one of these in years.

klgreene

Tracing wheel exactly.

matraina

Yep, as almost everyone has said, it's a tracing wheel used many years' ago (let's see - how old am I?)for marking darts, circles, etc. from the pattern to the fabric.

Covered in Threads

Brings back fun memories of making clothing. I use to use it for tracing darts, etc. Now I use my plastic handle one for texturing my minature sculptures out of Fimo clay.
And I believe it's an antique when it hits 30 yrs or older. Funny comments along the way, you people are adorable!

bink

agreed , a tracing wheel . I used one in 8th grade home ec to marked darts, dots, and seam joints, is used with a waxy colored paper

ginnyk

Me too. It also works to trace a quilting design or applique design directly on your top. The problem I found, is the tracing paper is not nearly as good as it used to be. Anybody know of a source of the good kind?

p

tracing tool, and could be used for a ravoli cutter

Quilt Mom

I taught DD to use the tracing wheel and paper for darts/pleats/etc. I also learned, and use sometimes, the technique of tailor's tacks on matching points of darts and pleats. My machine has a guide for the seam allowance marked on it. So we have not marked seam allowances.

It has been interesting that schools have dropped the home ec. classes. (Here, at least) So my girls had to learn it at home or not at all. One didn't ask until she finished college.