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Pants hemming tool.
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/h...mming_tool.jpg
Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...046#post120348
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...211#post141750
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...913#post144604
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...981#post144910
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...625#post155461
I recall one of those in our house when i was a kid...
And these pinking shears were always near...
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While these would work for trousers, the real intent is women's skirts. It wouldn't work very well other than chalking a pant leg, since most of us have our feet in the way.
The hinged arm has a small guide 'notch' that corresponds where it engages the upright section. This guides a straight pin accurately, which were typically headed with small glass spheres. A row of pins in circumference of dress hem set the height according to scale on the tool. Then, clothing was ready to sew on a machine, knowing the result was parallel to floor.
Before I knew what a height gauge was, Mom's was occasionally employed marking waterline on model boat hulls. Years [decades] later my wife was amazed I knew what it was, let alone how to work it, and set her hems for re-enactment clothing. "Well Maria, it IS after-all a tool..."
Good times can take many forms of activity!
Apparently your grandfather was not a tailor...
