Hook, Loom

Object/Artifact

Saco Museum

Name/Title

Hook, Loom

Entry/Object ID

2006.22.9

Description

Textile loom hook with wooden base. Circular hook at the top, used by Gertrude Dubay Tousignant when she worked at the Pepperell mill as a web drawer. The job was very specialized in the making of percale sheets. There are photographs of Gertrude using some of the tools and of women she worked with in the collection.

Dimensions

Height

8-1/2 in

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Cultural/Historical Context

Label

Tools used by workers in the mills on Factory Island were rarely cookie-cutter, mass market implements. Workers adapted tools or even made tools by hand to suit their specific tasks, to fit idiosyncratic machinery, or to work more efficiently with their own personal ergonomics. These tools belonged to Gertrude Dubay Tousignant and to family members of Raoul Goulet, one of several generations of mill workers.