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Finding an old style tool
On Sunday, January 17, 2016 at 6:03:54 AM UTC-5, wrote:
I just came across your post while I was searching for Ari/Arri hooks Although the post is a few years old I thought I'd reply. The hook is a tambour hook and you can get replacement hooks for the holder. The modern hooks are not so grand and the one you have is valuable. I sell the modern hooks from my website www.tambourbeadembroidery.com If you look on the section about buying a hook there is a video showing hooks and holders Jan Not all such tools are for tambour. My handle came to me in an old candy tin accompanied by several "eyeless needles", both bent and straight, that were probably intended for fine sewings in bobbin laces, and similar delicate constructions. It also included an awl, a tatting hook (may be a crochet hook, it is hard to tell) and a fine latch hook, all with matching (fixed) handles. You certainly could use a fine tambour hook for minute lace sewings, I have no doubt that it was done. I have seen some antique "kits" that included a handle, the needles, and tambour hooks all together. Generally along with other items such as netting shuttles, needles, and gauges, or other assorted lace making tools. The eyeless needles have a flat side where they clamp in, which is what gave me the notion to try a sewing machine needle in the handle. Having given it some thought I think I may have attached the name bodkin to my thing because one of my grandmas had a similar such a thing that she used for pricking patterns for transfer, and patterns for bobbin lace, and she called it a bodkin. NightMist |
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