Needle Supports (Handknitting)
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Needle Supports (Handknitting)
Classmark: LAVC/PHO/P1359
Related People: Castle Museum (York)()
Creator(s): Langhorne, Richard
Site Location(s): Subject - York, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.9576, -1.08271 ); Subject - Middleton in Teesale, Durham, England, United Kingdom( 54.6251, -2.08234 )
Date(s): 18 June 1964
Size and medium: 1 mounted photographic print.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/412299
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Seven wooden needle supports from Middleton in Teesdale, part of the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. The supports include a hornbeam stay busk, chip-carved with motifs including hearts and diamonds, and made by Thomas Tarn of Ettersghyll, with his intials and date 1784; a sycamore bladed stick, carved with star, zigzag, and circular patterns, initialled T. B.; a bladed stick with fish-tail-like base, engraved with circles, and initialled M.A.S. in brass tacks; a pear wood bladed stick, carved with zigzag border pattern, diamond motifs, and a star or floral pattern; a chain needle support with square and diagonal pattern, spiral cube hose, sunk rectangular panels on the cube for initials and love tokens, and initials and date J.A.N. 29 1840 on the top of the clue (or clew) holder; sycamore bladed stick with zigzag border pattern, haft reinforced with brass plate, and inscription MAS + STALEY (belonged to Susanah Staley); and an elm bladed stick with octagonal haft,
curly-tailed base, zigzag border pattern and initials S.G. (Sarah Gargate). Mounted on Photo File card.
Originally held in Photo File: Knitting.
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