----- > Does anyone know what this 'Antique Laceworking Tool' is? > > http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3703974906&category=12 > > Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >The Item looks like a knitting board I was shown once upon a time. You would make loops on the nail (stick up part) and then use it like you do a knitting needle. You take your thread to the first stitch and then on to the next one ,pulling the yarn over the loop and then putting the loop over that. It works for straight knitting. I think this was around 1940-1945. I was very young Roslyn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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