Needle Supports (Handknitting)
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Needle Supports (Handknitting)
Classmark: LAVC/PHO/P1364
Related People: Castle Museum (York)()
Creator(s): Langhorne, Richard
Site Location(s): Subject - York, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.9576, -1.08271 )
Date(s): 18 June 1964
Size and medium: 1 photographic print.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/412304
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Five early needle supports from the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. The supports include a bundle of sticks, or bundley sticks (probably elm), secured by wire or string; a bundle of sticks enclosed in a linen poke; a bundle of quills secured by wire or string; a bundle of straw enclosed in a linen poke; and a bundle of barley straw bound with wire or string. Three of the supports have curved needles inserted into the top. Also includes a roll of cloth (possibly to keep sticks and straw used as needle supports bound together) used in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Display labelled 19. Unmounted.
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