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Needle Supports (Handknitting)

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/PHO/P1366

Related People: Castle Museum (York)()

Creator(s): Langhorne, Richard

Site Location(s): Subject - York, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.9576, -1.08271 ); Subject - Crosby Garrett, Cumbria, England, North Yorkshire( 54.4789, -2.4242 ); Subject - Penrith, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom( 54.6658, -2.75757 ); Subject - Eden Vale, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom( 54.7, -2.66667 )

Date(s): 18 June 1964

Size and medium: 1 photographic print.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/412306

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Seven carved wooden needle supports from villages in the Eden Vale (Cumbria), including Crosby Garrett, Penrith and Kings Meaburn. The supports form part of the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York, and include a bladed support with zigzag border pattern, a [?thistle] motif and initials A.T; a bladed support with zigzag border pattern and initials S.E.D.; a bladed support with zigzag border pattern, floral motif and initials L.J.D.; a plain bladed support; a turned support; a bladed support with name M. Davidson and date 1902; and a bladed support with punched initials B.P. and date 1876. Display labelled 4. Unmounted.

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