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Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Archive Item: LAVC/PHO/P1360

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/PHO/P1360

Creator(s): Langhorne, Richard

Site Location(s): Subject - York, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.9576, -1.08271 ); Subject - Alston, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom( 54.809, -2.43931 )

Date(s): 18 June 1964

Size and medium: 1 mounted photographic print.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/412300

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Six fancy wooden and metal needle supports from the collection of Mrs. E. A. Dipon of Alston (Cumbria). Includes a support dated 1847 with heart and diamond decoration; a stick bag, or poke, of chamois leather lined with silk and bead pattern on the front; a support with a silver name-plate engraved Bridget Ritson, Hill House Alston, and boxwood haft with ivory ferrule; a mahogany support with name B. Wilkinson; a mahogany support inlaid with boxwood; and a support with the base of the blade in use as a clue (or clew) holder, a cross at the top of the support, and a chain. Mounted on Photo File card.


Originally held in Photo File: Knitting.

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Knitting

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Sheaths (Knitting)

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