wooden cobbler's shoe bench

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Copper Hot Water Bottle / Bed Warmer: Metal flasks filled with hot water and placed under bedding to warm cold mattresses.

Copper Hot Water Bottle / Bed Warmer: Metal flasks filled with hot water and placed under bedding to warm cold mattresses.

Name/Title

wooden cobbler's shoe bench

Entry/Object ID

100387

Scope and Content

(AI) antique cobbler's shoe bench / leatherworking vise (often referred to as a stitching horse or shoemaker's bench vise). Function: Used by shoemakers, harness makers, or saddlers to hold leather items firmly in place at eye/chest level so both hands remained free to punch holes and hand-stitch with awls and needles. Mechanism: The vertical wooden housing acts as a clamp operated by an internal wedge or foot-pedal lever mechanism, securing leather pieces tightly near the top hole opening. Below on the floor sits a wooden yarn winder / swift part alongside a copper vessel.