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Wooden needles for mending nets
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fabric Piercing Tool, Sewing Needle
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Wooden needles for mending nets
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Identifier:
  • gcihs-2013.241.2039
Type:
  • Object, Fabric Piercing Tool, Sewing Needle
Subject:
  • Businesses, Fishery Business
Description:
Fishing gear. Collection of twelve wooden tools: (A) Eight wooden needles for mending nets, making and repairing bait bag netting: snowshoe-shaped implements with U-shaped end, closed tangs, and pointed ends. (B) Net needle: wood with large rectangular eye hole. (C) Wood rectangle with hole in the middle and a loop of rope through two other holes: lobster fishing assemby that keeps the line from getting tangled. (D and E) Two wood implements that come to a smooth point. [show more]
Silver rug needle or sewing punch tool
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fabric Piercing Tool
  • Other
  • No Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Only
Silver rug needle or sewing punch tool
Great Cranberry Island Historical Society
Identifier:
  • gcihs-2013.258.1989
Type:
  • Object, Fabric Piercing Tool
Subject:
  • Other
Description:
Sewing tool. Antique rug needle or sewing punch tool, a.k.a stiletto sewing awl. Silver handle, steel shank with removable, sliding mechanism bearing patent info: PAT. 0 APR-6-09. Would have been used for a variety of endeavors like ripping seams, as a punch tool in rug making, creating eyelet holes in embroidery, and pricking patterns. Implement was recovered from Ruth "Robin" Freeman's barn across from the Preble House. Freeman is the donor's niece. [show more]
Complete Family Darner
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Object, Fabric Piercing Tool, Sewing Needle, Darning Needle
  • Other, Sewing
Complete Family Darner
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Identifier:
  • mdihs-17599
Type:
  • Object, Fabric Piercing Tool, Sewing Needle, Darning Needle
Subject:
  • Other, Sewing
Description:
Kit to darn holes "in anything that requires mending or darning in the Home"; for use with sewing machines. Contains 4 small hoops or rings in various sizes. Small black pastic needle of some sort with the kit but probably not in the original kit. Found in apartment over old store in Seal Harbor.