Tailor's Shears
- Description
- These shears, pressing board, buttonhole cutter, buttonhole scissors, thread holders, and measuring sticks were owned by a Russian Jew named Barnet Rudin. An apprentice tailor from Minsk, Rudin immigrated to New York City in 1899 and finally settled in Rochester, NY, in 1908. There he opened a tailor's shop, which he continued to run up until his death in 1959.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- shears
- Object Type
- shears
- Date made
- ca 1890
- user
- Rudin, Bainet
- Physical Description
- metal (shears material)
- wool (case material)
- Measurements
- shears: 10 in x 2 3/4 in; 25.4 cm x 6.985 cm
- case: 13 in x 4 in; 33.02 cm x 10.16 cm
- Place Made
- Belarus: Minskaya Voblasts', Minsk
- ID Number
- TE*T17109
- catalog number
- T17109
- accession number
- 310752
- subject
- Tailor
- Immigration
- Textiles
- Work
- Artifact Walls exhibit
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Textiles
- Artifact Walls exhibit
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Belle Rudin Altman
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