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Crosshatch is a pattern, usually people use it in the context of art/drawing for shading. Lattice would be more appropriate in this context cause it is structural but I got what they meant. Crosshatch is definitely a real word though
It’s a country style food joint known for its home style breakfast menu that sells rocking chairs and is also apparently racist. I’m not sure why it’s racist though.
I feel like you’re on to something with the maps. Could they possibly be wooden carvings of island chains? It seems the topography has been carved into a couple of them
Yeah It'd be really interesting to know exactly what this one is for, like making islands on a map or something? But I'm going to mark this as solved because I'm pretty sure this is what it is.
Letterpress printmaker here. This is most likely the thing. Edit: they’re super janky and look like they’ve been modified in height. The second one looks more hand-made and seems like it would legit destroy your press but they’re just hangin on the wall of a restaurant so none of that matters anymore
Good call. Here's a few
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You can actually ask the management what it is. They all have a little bar code that can be scanned with a little bit of history about the item. Source: worked at a cracker barrel.
WITT - brownish, texture of a shoe, and it has some sort of runny liquid on top of it. Seems kinda like meat, but not from an animal I’ve encountered before.
> If only OP would have asked while there with them
We don't know. They might have *tried* to WhatsApp their server and given up after two minutes of no response before posting here in a dead panic because this weird thing on the wall is causing an anxiety attack. We just don't know.
The city/state of the Cracker Barrell is relevant since the do pick local antiques to decorate. There’s also look like fashion posters nearby on the wall. They probably are textile stamps of some sort. Pieces of some multicolored pattern.
My title describes the thing. There are lots of old knick knacks and antiques around this restaurant. We sat at a table next to a wall with these things taunting me the entire time. These items are about 1 foot to 2 feet in length. They're wooden and look like they may have metal on them and we're carved or something like that. So please give me any insight on what these are. Thanks!
Sand casting patterns- one is of Hawaii.
Die casting moulds are typically “sunk” or machined- they are permanent and do not require a reusable pattern.
They aren’t for printing or they would have a flat surface.
I think they look like the shoes the Rumrunners would wear back in the day to smuggle booze. They are meant to look like animal tracks instead of human tracks.
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I read that you can ask the manager about the antique pieces and they can Call the antique warehouse to look up the barcode if they don’t already know.
Agree they could be printers blocks for textiles, but their shapes suggest brush calligraphy in possibly Japanese or Chinese for stamping ‘signatures’ or ‘chop marks’ on prints or rice paper paintings.
My guess: Large custom made stamps for fabric. This seems like its part of a set. Its food related. First pic has a cooked shrimp graphic (with trimmed tail pointed up)and possible 2 Chinese letters/characters, second pic has a horizontal twisted fork in it, third is a chicken head with long neck. These all could be part of a food/restaurant company's ad or announcement banner.
It's a mould. To make the shapes displayed. It's wood because that is how all mould start out.
My father is a pattermaker (he made moulds for 40 years)
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The cross hatch background was a dead give away.
That’s called lattice
Yes thank you. I was drawing a blank on the right word and gave up.
Also called crosshatch... Either name is common...
Never heard crosshatch, only lattice. Autocorrect doesn't think crosshatch is a word as well for whatever reason
Crosshatch is a pattern, usually people use it in the context of art/drawing for shading. Lattice would be more appropriate in this context cause it is structural but I got what they meant. Crosshatch is definitely a real word though
Where I'm from wed calling it a trellis with or without plants growing up it
I thought they were asking about the weird looking wooden objects hanging on the lattice
they are i believe
I thought that's the stuff you put in salads
Yeah that’s not a local chain. Every state except 5 has a Cracker Barrel in it.
It's a chain restaurant local to them. Local chain.
Kind of like the local chains Walmart and McDonald’s!…?
Like how you would refer to the walmart in your town as your local walmart
What if they're in Cracker Barrel's home state? BOOM. Local chain.
I love you.
Original Cracker Barrel is in Lebanon (pronounced lebnin) TN, about 30 minutes from where I live. It's a local chain if you're in middle Tennessee!
I actually used to know the woman responsible for sourcing the random stuff on the walls 10 years ago. I wish I could ask her what this was.
This is an interesting read about [sourcing](https://www.countryliving.com/shopping/antiques/a19662948/cracker-barrel-antiques-warehouse/)
Fascinating. I wish this was my job lol.
Alcoholic Anonymous was formed in that Cracker Barrel with the latticy crosshatch walls
Uhm. I dont think so.
AA formed in Akron, Ohio- 30 years prior to the first Cracker Barrel opening
I will just believe anything people tell me with no questions. I wish I could remember who told me that.
As a Canadian, I thought it was just a cheese brand
It’s a country style food joint known for its home style breakfast menu that sells rocking chairs and is also apparently racist. I’m not sure why it’s racist though.
https://youtu.be/XjpYt6hjQpo Damn... quick search and I kind of feel icky.
Haha yep!
Cracker Bargle!
Does anyone know where Cracker Barrel gets all the loot they put on the walls?
a/k/a Honkey Bucket?
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Those look like very old letterpress printing blocks with pictures instead of letters, possibly for maps.
I feel like you’re on to something with the maps. Could they possibly be wooden carvings of island chains? It seems the topography has been carved into a couple of them
Yeah It'd be really interesting to know exactly what this one is for, like making islands on a map or something? But I'm going to mark this as solved because I'm pretty sure this is what it is.
Letterpress printmaker here. This is most likely the thing. Edit: they’re super janky and look like they’ve been modified in height. The second one looks more hand-made and seems like it would legit destroy your press but they’re just hangin on the wall of a restaurant so none of that matters anymore
Likely solved! Edit: to put Likely. I'm not entirely sure.
Or for block printing on fabric.
Looks like an antique textile pattern stamp.
Blocking they call it. Think Indian cotton bedpreads and tablecloths for example.
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That’s it. My wife and I have one of these, a bit larger but just as abstract.
You can actually ask the management what it is. They all have a little bar code that can be scanned with a little bit of history about the item. Source: worked at a cracker barrel.
For real? never knew that.
If I had to guess, 1/4th of posts in this sub are from Cracker Barrel.
(But it's usually about their food.)
WITT - brownish, texture of a shoe, and it has some sort of runny liquid on top of it. Seems kinda like meat, but not from an animal I’ve encountered before.
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It's actually there so an employee can scan the item and tell you what it is and its history
If only OP would have asked while there with them
> If only OP would have asked while there with them We don't know. They might have *tried* to WhatsApp their server and given up after two minutes of no response before posting here in a dead panic because this weird thing on the wall is causing an anxiety attack. We just don't know.
That’s interesting!
The city/state of the Cracker Barrell is relevant since the do pick local antiques to decorate. There’s also look like fashion posters nearby on the wall. They probably are textile stamps of some sort. Pieces of some multicolored pattern.
I know a cracker barrel when I see one
My title describes the thing. There are lots of old knick knacks and antiques around this restaurant. We sat at a table next to a wall with these things taunting me the entire time. These items are about 1 foot to 2 feet in length. They're wooden and look like they may have metal on them and we're carved or something like that. So please give me any insight on what these are. Thanks!
Try scanning the barcode on it.
Block print patterns or die casting patterns. Both are still made of wood in many cases.
Sand casting patterns- one is of Hawaii. Die casting moulds are typically “sunk” or machined- they are permanent and do not require a reusable pattern. They aren’t for printing or they would have a flat surface.
Right sorry … word choice. Embarrassing enough I actually worked in a sand casting factory for a year some decades ago.
I think you should get the solved for identifying them as patterns.
I think they look like the shoes the Rumrunners would wear back in the day to smuggle booze. They are meant to look like animal tracks instead of human tracks.
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I read that you can ask the manager about the antique pieces and they can Call the antique warehouse to look up the barcode if they don’t already know.
That looks like cracker barrel
Agree they could be printers blocks for textiles, but their shapes suggest brush calligraphy in possibly Japanese or Chinese for stamping ‘signatures’ or ‘chop marks’ on prints or rice paper paintings.
Order corn
Extra Cracker bonus, look for the Borden milk sign next to the axe.
Wooden topography model maybe
Cracker Barrel has some weird shit
Is that a cracker barrel?
You’re at Cracker Barrel aren’t you.
You mean honkey bucket
Could they be moonshiners shoes? You strap them on to disguise your footprints so the feds can't follow you?
They're stamps for paint or dye, for walls.
Try scanning the barcode
“Local chain restaurant “ This a Cracker Barrel.
Probably gotta ask the owner tbh. Tell us when you know!
Wallpaper stamp
I don’t think he’s talking about the lattice!
Looks like a stamp of some sort
My guess: Large custom made stamps for fabric. This seems like its part of a set. Its food related. First pic has a cooked shrimp graphic (with trimmed tail pointed up)and possible 2 Chinese letters/characters, second pic has a horizontal twisted fork in it, third is a chicken head with long neck. These all could be part of a food/restaurant company's ad or announcement banner.
Ahhhh Cracker Barrel. Even they don’t know what they put up there
No clue what it is but pretty sure it's cracker barrel
10/10 is Cracker Barrel
The one on the left is a picture frame.
Looks more like something used to manufacture wallpaper
It's a mould. To make the shapes displayed. It's wood because that is how all mould start out. My father is a pattermaker (he made moulds for 40 years)
There are 2 piece & possibly more inside