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Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Archive Item: LAVC/PHO/P1367

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/PHO/P1367

Related People: Castle Museum (York)()

Creator(s): Langhorne, Richard

Site Location(s): Subject - York, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.9576, -1.08271 ); Subject - Eden Vale, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom( 54.7, -2.66667 ); Subject - Bolton, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom( 54.6035, -2.56308 ); Subject - Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom( 54.4723, -2.34865 ); Subject - Lambrigg, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom ( 54.3567, -2.65181 ); Subject - Newbiggin-on-Lune, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom( 54.4425, -2.45887 ); Subject - Crosby Garrett, Cumbria, England, North Yorkshire( 54.4789, -2.4242 ); Subject - Warcop, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom( 54.5357, -2.39107 )

Date(s): 18 June 1964

Size and medium: 1 photographic print.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/412307

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Nine carved wooden needle supports from villages in the Eden Vale (Cumbria), including Bolton, Kirkby Stephen, Lambrigg, Newbiggin-on-Lune, Crosby Garrett and Warcop. The supports form part of the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York, and include a bladed support with a cross pattern [dated ?1701] and initialled E.W.; a bladed support with floral motif; a bladed support with a deep groove across the body; a bladed support with punched triangular pattern and initials B.C.; a bladed support with border pattern and carving on haft; a bladed support with diagonal and box patterns and initials S.G.; a bladed support with spiral haft; a turned support; and a bladed support with [?ivory] ferrule topping the haft. Display labelled 5. Unmounted.

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England

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Knitting

Material culture

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Needles (Knitting)

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Sheaths (Knitting)

Wood carving

Woodworking industries

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