The coat of arms of Evingsen shows a shoe making awl in the right half, symbolizing the production of shoe making tools - together with wire production the most important industries of the municipality.
Shells were used as hammers, awls, celts and digging tools, and as bowls, dippers and spoons.
The accident spurred Braille to the invention of the famous Braille alphabet.
The first element is stor meaning "big" and the last element is the finite singular form of syl which means "awl".