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Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Archive Item: LAVC/PHO/P1353

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/PHO/P1353

Related People: Castle Museum (York)()

Creator(s): Langhorne, Richard

Site Location(s): Subject - York, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.9576, -1.08271 ); Subject - Eden Vale, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom( 54.7, -2.66667 ); Subject - Appleby, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom( 54.5833, -2.48333 ); Subject - Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom( 54.4723, -2.34865 ); Subject - Warcop, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom( 54.5357, -2.39107 ); Subject - Crosby Garrett, Cumbria, England, North Yorkshire( 54.4789, -2.4242 )

Date(s): 18 June 1964

Size and medium: 1 mounted photographic print.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/412293

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Seven carved wooden needle supports from villages in the Eden Vale (Cumbria), including Appleby, Warcop, Kirkby Stephen (engraved with initials B.C.), Crosby Garrett (engraved with initials I.J.D.), Lambrigg and Penrith. The supports form part of the the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. Mounted on Photo File card. With typed note.


Originally held in Photo File: Knitting.

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England

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Knitting

Material culture

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Needles (Knitting)

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Sheaths (Knitting)

Wood carving

Woodworking industries

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