The authors of The Tudor Tailor series are offering a line of Pinking chisels I would call them, recreated from original finds. www.tudortailor.com
Regina Sent from my iPad On Jul 23, 2014, at 9:26 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jul 2014, Bonnie Booker wrote: >> As far as a chisel for cutting, a blade works better and is easier. I would >> think this is what they would use. > > Here are some webpages with pictures of tools used for slashing and pinking. > Rather chisel-like, but quite specialized. > > http://thegoldenscissors.blogspot.com/2012/06/pinking-tools-on-ebay.html > Includes a picture from 18th c. Diderot's Encyclopedia > > http://duchesstrading.blogspot.com/2011/06/cool-antique-tools-pinking-machines.html > Pinking "chisels" as well as a 19th c. pinking "machine" > >> From my studies of pinking in the 16th c., i believe the chisel-like tools >> are quite similar to those used then. ISTR a 16th c. painting showing the >> tools but am not finding it at the moment. > > Anahita > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
