What are these tools?
 

What are the names and uses for these two sewing tools? I assume they are old as they were found with old buttons and sewing notions.

the second looks like something for leather....

aileen

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the 2nd one is a leather awl. You use it to push leather lacing through leather pieces. The first one looks like a broken tweezer...

Second is an awl. The first I think could be mini tweezers.

the second one is used to make punch rugs.
remember the rug yarn in the craft section?
the yarn is threaded through the two holes.
when you push it through the fabric (canvas, burlap, similar) then pull it back out it leaves a yarn loop.
fill in the pattern. presto! pretty rug. :)

if the first one isn't a tweezers, i don't have a clue what else it could be.

The bottom one looks like a tool that my mother used to make rugs. The wool yarn was pushed through the hessian/ canvas and the loops were cut off or shaved into a carpet when the background was finished. The other one looks like thread tweezers which make unpicking a whole lot easier.

The second one looks like a tool for making rugs. When I was a kid there was a really old neighbor lady who made rugs - she used wool in the tool and she punched the tool through burlap like someone already described - she made the most beautiful rugs. She also chopped her own wood in one whack. She was tiny but she sure could chop wood. Then to stay warm she sat by her wood stove and made the rugs.

Here is another picture of the first one:

wondering if the first one belonged on a zipper??? And I agree, the second one is a punch hook tool (I have tried it... wasn't very good at it lol) I would rather be at the sewing machine!