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Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Archive Item: LAVC/PHO/P1371

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/PHO/P1371

Related People: Castle Museum (York)()

Creator(s): Langhorne, Richard

Site Location(s): Subject - York, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.9576, -1.08271 ); Subject - Teesdale, County Durham, England, United Kingdom( 54.6333, -2.13333 )

Date(s): 18 June 1964

Size and medium: 1 photographic print.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/412311

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Ten carved wooden needle supports from Teesdale (Durham), from the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. The supports include a mahogany bladed support with octagonal haft lined with cow-horn; an ash bladed support; an oak support with fiddle base finish used for the suspension of a bottom crook, and square brass plate reinforcing the haft; a birch bladed support with all-over diamond pattern; a [?mahogany] support with floral motif; an oak support small enough to fit into a small pocket; a sycamore support with brass cap on the haft; a chestnut bladed support with rectangular panel to accommodate name, and brass cap on the haft; a mahogany bladed support with deep groove; and second oak support small enough to fit into a small pocket. Display labelled 12. Unmounted.

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Sheaths (Knitting)

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