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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Northern Lights Lodge, post: 9548951, member: 13464&quot;]Hi [USER=649]@bluumz[/USER].</p><p>Could it be a lace-making tool, such as a pricker?</p><p><br /></p><p>Although it is possible it is a lacemaking tool like a pricker...and the fine crochet hook end (broken) was probably used for lacy crochet.... the other pointy end was probably not a &quot;pricker&quot; persay. It is really too slender for an awl; but would have been useful to start a hole in dense fabric.</p><p><br /></p><p>A lacemaking pricker; was usually a short compact piece of wood shaped so that it was comfortable in the hand and had either an embedded short needle (pointy end out) or a &quot;pin vice&quot; installed. The pin vice was a clamp which could hold a needle. The advantage over an embedded short needle is that if you needle broke; it was easy to slip out the broken needle and slip in a new one. Older model prickers with no pin vice were often sidelined once they had a broken needle. </p><p><br /></p><p>The length on the sharp end of the pictured unit; is really (in my lacemaker mind) wayyyyy too long to make a good &quot;lacemaker pricker&quot;; and the grip way too slender. With a long needle like that; you wouldn&#039;t have very good control of where you want an &quot;exactly placed&quot; pin hole on a paper pattern and to hold something so slender for many hours on end while you pricked your pattern would cause slipping and cramping.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, I&#039;m back to crochet hooks!</p><p>Cheerio Leslie[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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