Tool (for textiles) (Pattern block)

Description

A tin pattern used in quiltmaking. An S shape wooden block at the base, with seven elongated rectangular strips of tin bent into an S-curve and riveted to the block on one side. This type of pattern was used, often by commercial quilters, to mark a pattern onto the top fabric layer of a quilt (using pounce, a dry mixture mainly composed of chalk powder) to quickly and easily repeat designs that would be complicated to draw by hand.