Knitting Sticks

Description

This file contains typed and photocopied papers collected by Richard Langhorne for his M.A. thesis on aspects of 19th-century Yorkshire life. The papers relate to the hand-knitting industry, and refer to collections of knitting-sticks and needle-supports in museum collections, including the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York; Bolling Hall Museum, Bradford; the Museum of English Rural Life, Reading; Luton Museum; the Welsh Folk Museum, Cardiff; the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle; and the Bankfield Museum, Halifax. Reference is also made to personal collections of these objects. The papers include a typed list of needle supports and knitting sticks (some of which relate to photographs held in LAVC/PHO/P) from North Yorkshire, and their provenance; photocopied typed papers listing types of needle supports and knitting sticks and their provenance; and typed papers on knitting sticks, domestic and commercial knitting in the North Yorkshire Dales and Wales, needles and needle-supports.


File largely arranged as found.

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Related material

Photographic images relating to knitting are held in the Photo File (LAVC/PHO/P). See LAVC/PHO/P1312 -1389.



The M.A. thesis to which these papers relate is Richard Langhorne's 'Some Aspects of Nineteenth Century Yorkshire Life: A Re-Examination of George Walker, The Costume of Yorkshire, 1814'(Leeds, 1971), held at LAVC/SRP/1/030. There are typed lists of needle-supports and knitting sticks relating to photographs held in subfonds LAVC/PHO/P. See

- P1344

- P1346

- P1350

- P1358

- P1359.

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