What are these tools?
03-09-2014, 02:37 AM
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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.
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.
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03-09-2014, 02:59 AM
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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.
03-09-2014, 03:19 AM
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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.
03-09-2014, 04:43 AM
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The first one says, "Arrow PAT PEND (patent pending). I thought it might be to pick threads, but the end is too wide where you squeeze it down.
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