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!

Arrow makes staples/staplers. Could it be a staple remover?

The second one looks just like the rug hooking tool I used back in the 60"s.

I agree with QuilterVagabond that the first one might be a staple remover - very early versiion!

The second is definitely a needle for sewing heavy cord, as in repairing sails. I bought one when I thought I could fix the canvas covering our boat.

Staple remover makes sense for the first. Wonder if Google ID works for objects as well as faces, lol.

Not sure what the first one is; it kind of looks like something you take the top off of a strawberry, the second one I believe is called an awl (pronounced all) and is used to punch holes in leather.

I used to have the second tool when I used to restring catchers mitts for the kids in the neighborhood. I figured out how to do my daughter's that was given to her, and suddenly every kid in the neighborhood needed theirs done. Lol!

I used the second one for cutting out designs rubber stamps in high school.

I'm thinking that second one was one handy tool to have in your drawer...

I believe the first one is a small like tool to pull the yarn through the awl or rug hook.

We are curious about #1 also. We got one in a box of old kitchen utensils. Been wondering what it was used for.