Posted 7 years ago
Irishcolle…
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This is an example of the same tool being marketed to two different customers to do two completely different jobs. In some catalogues it is sold as a needle for horse collar makers, in others it is sold as a needle for slitting vellum legal documents and treading ribbon through the slits to hold the documents together.
10 inches long.
Also sold online as a sacking needle supposedly for sewing feed bags shut, and a sail-makers needle. You have to ask yourself why this tool would be used for any of those purposes when there are other perfectly good tools that do those jobs better. You can find this tool online at restaurant supply sites sold as a "trussing needle" used by chefs in certain recipes for stitching large pieces of meat into rolls.
Thanks UncleRon, its uses seem endless.