I would interpret ring sizer in a needlework sense as a couronne stick
for needlelace - ie used to ensure the couronnes (buttonholed rings)
worked were the same size - though these do taper.
What is coming into my mind where something with a carved finial each
end is concerned, is a bell pull end - these have been given away with
needlework magazines and included in cross stitch kits over the past few
(20-odd!) years and of course bell pulls were used more in the 1800s so
would be a suitable needlework project at the time.
In message <[email protected]>,
Susan Reishus <[email protected]> writes
The original picture referred to, was symmetrical cylinder embellished with
carved relief and a finial, on the end we could see. It showed at least half
of it, which wasn't tapered like a ring sizer would be. I just don't see the
logic of why a ring sizer would be placed in with needlework (far removed
would be wpi-wraps per inch tool, but they too are straight cylinders marked
with how many wpi).
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Jane Partridge
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