Needle Supports (Handknitting)
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Needle Supports (Handknitting)
Classmark: LAVC/PHO/P1346
Related People: Castle Museum (York)()
Creator(s): Langhorne, Richard
Site Location(s): Subject - York, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.9576, -1.08271 ); Subject - Ravenstonedale, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom( 54.4321, -2.43124 )
Date(s): 18 June 1964
Size and medium: 1 mounted photographic print.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/412286
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Four wooden knitting needle supports from Ravenstonedale, part of the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. They include a mahogany support, initialled S.B., with brass tacks and decorated with gouge cuts; an oak support with metal-lined orifice, carved with diamond patterns, geometric flower and a monogram; a relatively plain support (no supporting information); and a walnut support with a brass ferule on the haft, orifice lined with cow-horn and ivory inlay. Mounted on Photo File card.
Originally held in Photo File: Knitting.
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