Vintage 1920s Wooden Darn Potato CSHW

Vintage 1920s Wooden Darn Potato

6"x2.5"x1"

How it works:

1. You slide the smooth, egg/potato-shaped wooden end inside the heel or toe of a sock that has a hole in it.

2. The wooden form stretches the knit fabric just enough to keep it taut and firm.

3. This provides a hard background surface, making it easy to weave a needle and thread back and forth across the hole (a process called "darning") without accidentally sewing the two sides of the sock together!

It’s a fantastic piece of early 20th-century domestic history. Today, collectors love displaying them in rustic mason jars on sewing room shelves, or textile artists still use them for hand-mending vintage clothing.