Crow wheel tool. Finishing department, shoe manufacturing

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Date:1940 - 1970 (c.)

Description:Crow wheel, finishing tool, a small wheel mounted in a forked carriage, set in a wooden handle.
The tool wheel is warmed up and used for printing a narrow decorative pattern across the waist of the sole.
This operation was known as Crowing. This tool was also used to cover a channel in which stitches have been sunk.

From a Stafford shoe factory.

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Source: Staffordshire Museum Service

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