Tool Identification

6/18/04, 9:00 PM #1

David Miller
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Tool Identification

David Miller from Iowa

>Greetings all � I was a regular on Badger Pond, but first time poster here. I�m a long-time antique tool collector/user and had my tool identification hubris dialed up pretty high, until this came along.

It�s a folding square, 24�x13� arm lengths, 1 3/8� arm width, looks like boxwood, marked S.T. TAYLOR 930 B�WAY NEW YORK. Just has 1-inch markings, no other graduations like framing squares have.

What puzzles me are the little clips (there are two on each arm, but I had trouble getting the picture small enough to upload). Apparently used to attach to something paper-thin on an inside corner. Anyone know of this maker or the special use of this square.

Thanks, David

Re: Tool Identification

6/18/04, 9:56 PM #2

Bob Nelson
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Bob Nelson

>It's a tailor/seamstress square. Fabric goes under the litle clips. Bob

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6/18/04, 10:07 PM #3

David Miller
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David Miller from Iowa

>Thanks Bob - can you tell me how it works, or better, why? It seems one would have to first cut an inside corner in the fabric, then insert fabric into these clips for some purpose I can't fathom (not that I know anything about sewing). Maybe I should send this to the MWTC ladies guild?

Re: Tool Identification

6/18/04, 11:44 PM #4

Bill Houghton
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Sexism alert!

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>The (male) physician who delivered our second son had, in the same week, finished making a dress for his wife, something he mentioned to us while stitching up the incision necessitated by the delivery of our son.

Granted, he's rare, but not alone.

Re: Tool Identification

6/19/04, 1:16 PM #5

Todd Stock
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Alert?

Todd Stock

>If David's assumption was that the Guild has or desired to have special and specific knowledge of old tools used by those crafting in fabric, I don't see the issue.

If the alert was, in fact, a sly and humorous jab at current fads, then I join with your comments and applaud your effort.

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