Victor Sack wrote:
>
> Mark Thorson > wrote:
>
> > That last one uses a wooden tool with grooves
> > running in the long dimension similar to the one
> > I saw on TV. The other ones appear to be using
> > a metal comb with tines running along the short
> > dimension.
>
> No, they are all supposed to be used in the same way and the resulting
> garganelli all have horizontal (rather than penne-like vertical) ridges.

I was referring to the tool, not the resulting pasta.

> The other ones are antique or made just like antique ones. The
> traditional pettine was not made specially for pasta making, but was a
> part of an antique loom used for spinning hemp. The tool is called
> "pettine", "comb", but it is actually the reed of a loom. The "tines"
> are made of rope-, cord-, or string-like material. It is very
> interesting that someone somewhere in Romagna once decided to use such a
> device for making pasta.

I suppose anything with ridges would work.