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Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Archive Item: LAVC/PHO/P1358

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/PHO/P1358

Creator(s): Langhorne, Richard

Site Location(s): Subject - Nenthead, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom( 54.7892, -2.34215 )

Date(s): 18 June 1964

Size and medium: 1 mounted photographic print.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/412298

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Four chain needle supports from the collection of Charles Bainbridge of Middleton in Teesdale. The supports were made at the Nenthead mines when Mr. Bainbridge worked there as a miner, and appear never to have been used. Miners fashioned the chain supports during dinner breaks and in the evenings, often using saws and vices available in the mine's joiner's shop.


Three of the supports have six links in the chain and two half links. Between the top and bottom sets of three links is a swivel. The support to the left of the image has two links and a half link above the swivel, and is pronged for support on a belt or cowband. The half links are dowelled into the needle support and clue (or clew) holder. Mounted on Photo File card.


Originally held in Photo File: Knitting.

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England

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Knitting

Material culture

Metal Trade

Metal-work

Miners

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Needles (Knitting)

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Sheaths (Knitting)

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