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Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Archive Item: LAVC/PHO/P1352

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/PHO/P1352

Creator(s): Langhorne, Richard

Site Location(s): Subject - East Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.9167, -0.5 ); Subject - North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.1977, -1.39387 ); Subject - South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.45, -1.25 ); Subject - West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.7, -1.58333 ); Subject - County Durham, England, United Kingdom( 54.6766, -1.76654 )

Date(s): 18 June 1964

Size and medium: 1 mounted photographic print.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/412292

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Nine fancy knitting needle supports from Yorkshire and Durham, from the collection of Mrs. Agar of Richmond (North Yorkshire). They include supports made from bone; supports carved into the shape of fish; delicately carved supports including one engraved with the date 1737; and supports with marquetry detail. Mounted on Photo File card.


Originally held in Photo File: Knitting.

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