Susan reports:
Since you've all been enjoying guessing Loretta's mystery workshop, we decided to offer up another guessing-game. Or perhaps you won't be guessing at all, but will be able to identify this mystery-object right away.
My only hints: it's from a trade shop in Colonial Williamsburg, and a modern variation of it is still in use today. Good luck!
Coming Attraction Alert: Since we NHG were in CW for nearly a week, we had the rare
opportunity to watch the mantua-maker (aka the dressmaker) and her assistants cut, stitch, and fit an entire 18th c. gown. It's lovely, a pale pink sack gown in the fashionable style so often painted by the French artist Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) that it's frequently called a gown a la Watteau or a robe a la Francaise. Later this week, I'll be posting a series of photographs here that show this gown's step-by-step creation and fitting -- tres cool!
Right: detail from Les deux cousines by Antoine Watteau, 1718, Musee du Louvre
One of us -- 
7 comments:
Ya'll are just CRUEL! LOL I've seen this tool, but I can't remember what it's for. *sigh*
I swear, that looks like an implement you would use to cut raw dough!
I think I still have to go with some kind of metal working shop.
My husband says the paddle looks like the kind you would use to make fudge!
That looks like a carpenter's chisel to me. ~Sherrie Holmes
Ye Olde Ice Scraper?
Oh, my, and here I thought this might be too easy!
Alas, no one is particularly close, so here's a clue: the photograph was taken at close range to show the detail. The bottom of the mystery-thing itself is only about two inches across, and the handle's about seven inches long.
But I have to say these have been some very inventive guesses. :)
I'll post the answer late tomorrow night with my new blog....
A cheese slicer?
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