[Bonetools] "linen smoother"?

[Annabel Médard]

Dear Sonia,
Oops, you're right! Looking for some examples on the internet to post here
I just bumped into this one, I should have had a better look at the picture
:)
By the way, do you know some references / publications about such tools?
The seam smoothers from Assendelft / Krommenie (The Netherlands) are made
of cattle metapodia (sometimes with a piece of wood in it) and are highly
polished, some of them on the whole surface.
Regards,
Annabel


On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 1:04 PM, S O'Connor <S.Oconnor at bradford.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Dear Annabel,
>
>
>
> Yes, some of the Hull examples (not in the catalogue) are very like this
> too.  I know that the catalogue entry for your example says it is ivory but
> from the photograph I am sure it is not ivory. You can see the
> longitudinally organised, dark, dots and dashes produced by the vascular
> system of the bone. The size of these features and the size of the object
> indicate that this is cut from whale bone.
>
>
>
> All the best,
>
>
>
> Sonia
>
> Dr Sonia O'Connor PhD FSA FIIC ACR Honorary Visiting Fellow, University
> of York
>
> Post-doctoral Research Fellow
>
> Archaeological Sciences
>
> Division of AGES,
>
> University of Bradford
>
> Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK
>
>
>
> tel 01274 23 6498 (office) 5210 (lab)
>
> fax 01274 23 5210
>
>
>
> *From:* Bonetools [mailto:bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu] *On Behalf
> Of *Annabel Médard
> *Sent:* 16 June 2014 11:22
>
> *To:* Mailing list for archaeologists of the research group for the study
> of object and waste of bone, antler. ivory and horn.
> *Subject:* Re: [Bonetools] "linen smoother"?
>
>
>
> Hello David,
>
> Exactly! I agree with Sonia. I know this kind of tools as being used by
> sailmakers in the Netherlands (mostly from Friesland) in the 17th-19th
> century (of course more or less similar objects might have been used before
> that but I do not have any example). They were made of bone or wood (and
> sometimes even ivory, like this one
> http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/indonesie_onafhankelijk_-_fotos_1947-1953/items/FSM01:J-062-E/&p=2&i=3&t=83&st=zeilmakerijen&sc=subject%20all%20%22zeilmakerijen%22/
> ).
>
> There was an important (hennep) sailmaking industry in the villages of
> Krommenie and Assendelft (a bit north west of Amsterdam) and I am doing
> some research on bones that were found at different sites there that were
> probably used to smoothen the seams in sails. Those have different shapes
> than the ones above though, might be some local variation / adjustment to a
> specific way of working. But doing that research I came across several sail
> smoothers that resemble yours, as Sonia posted.
>
> Regards,
>
> Annabel Médard
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 11:32 AM, S O'Connor <S.Oconnor at bradford.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
> Dear David,
>
>
>
> I have seen objects just like this in cetacean bone and wood, but of much
> more recent origin. These are sailmakers tools for smoothing seams in sails
> and are sometimes called seam rubbers.
>
>
>
> See Hull Museums Collections
> http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/museumcollections/collections/search-results/resultsoverview.php?keywordsorig=&titleorig=&personorig=&placeorig=&dateorig=&materialorig=&accessionnumberorig=&collectionorig=&museumorig=&keywords=seam+smoother&SearchSubmit.x=0&SearchSubmit.y=0&SearchSubmit=Search&title=&person=&place=&date=&material=&accessionnumber=&collectionall=all&museumall=all&location=any
>
> If this URL does not work go to
> http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/museumcollections/collections/ and search on
> seam smoother.
>
>
>
> All the best,
>
>
>
> Sonia
>
>
>
> Dr Sonia O'Connor PhD FSA FIIC ACR Honorary Visiting Fellow, University
> of York
>
> Post-doctoral Research Fellow
>
> Archaeological Sciences
>
> Division of AGES,
>
> University of Bradford
>
> Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD7 1DP, UK
>
>
>
> tel 01274 23 6498 (office) 5210 (lab)
>
> fax 01274 23 5210
>
>
>
> *From:* Bonetools [mailto:bonetools-bounces at listserv.niif.hu] *On Behalf
> Of *Dave Constantine
> *Sent:* 16 June 2014 09:40
> *To:* bonetools at listserv.niif.hu
> *Subject:* [Bonetools] "linen smoother"?
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I was forwarded the attached image by a friend who had seen this object in
> Lincoln Museum where I believe it was labelled as a “Linen smoother”. They
> asked if I had ever come across anything similar as they thought linen
> smoothers are normally glass slickers. Having never seen anything like it I
> thought I would pop it up here to ask if any of you have come across an
> item like this. It is dated as “Anglo-Saxon” and is approximately "5” long
> (about 125mm)
>
>
> Regards,
>
> David Constantine
>
>
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