Paper hanger's knife
identifier
ID 598
morphology
craft
holotype
MOT V 96.0040 L=44,5cm WD=3,5cm WT=200gr. Inscription: WW WALKRON image crown.
description
Knife with a long (approx. 30 cm), spatula-shaped blade with a rectangular cut in section, attached to a straight handle. It is used to strip wallpaper glued in along the edge of the pasting table from the selvedge. For this purpose, a thin metal strip was applied to the long side of the table.
See also the wallpaper knife and the paper hanger's casing knife. [MOT]
