Using antique crafting tools
By nancygibson
@nancygibson (3736)
France
January 5, 2009 1:31pm CST
Like many people, I have a lot of vintage tools from my mother and grandmother, and a fair few from further back that are now proper antiques. I love using my antique tools, knowing that when my sewing awl was made the world was a very different place, or picking up knitting needles made from bone or a tatting shuttle made of ivory and being both glad that we rarely use such materials today yet grateful that they last so long so that we can still enjoy what was a commonplace material a hundred or more years ago.
Do you regularly use your family heirlooms, or do you keepthem safe but unusued for future generations?
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@neededhope (1085)
• United States
6 Jan 09
I don't have any antique tools from past years. The reason being most of my family never did crafts. My grandmother only sewed basically big pieces of material togetheir to make blankets. My mother she does a lot of sewing and crocheting but all her tools are new. And well I do all sorts of crafts but again mine are all new unless I find them at the good will which is rare to few between to find nice antiques.
But to think of the past while you are working on a project sounds like soemthing I would do. I am an over thinker so I think of everything. But to think of what that person was making and what the day was like and if it was thru the depression or what there financial situation was. Yes I would think about it too. It's amazing and interesting to me.
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