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Woolwinder

Archive Item: LAVC/PHO/P1313 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Woolwinder

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/PHO/P1313

Creator(s): Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)

Site Location(s): Subject - Burtersett, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.2985, -2.16537 )

Date(s): June 1966

Size and medium: 1 mounted photographic print.

Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/n6z62jyv

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/412253

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Woolwinder, or windle, consisting of a small wooden stool with a hole in the middle into which is inserted a rod from which the wool was wound. This example belongs to Miss Maggie Calvert of Burtersett ( Wensleydale). Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1312. With typed extract on this type of woolwinder from Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby's 'The Old Hand-Knitters of the Dales' (Clapham: Dalesman, 1981).


Originally held in Photo File: Knitting.

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