Needle Supports (Handknitting)
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Needle Supports (Handknitting)
Classmark: LAVC/PHO/P1373
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 ); Subject - Ribblesdale, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom ( 54.145, -2.29363 )
Date(s): 18 June 1964
Size and medium: 1 photographic print.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/412313
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Six carved wooden bump knitting needle supports, including supports from Teesdale (Durham) and Ribblesdale (Yorkshire Dales), in the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. The supports include an oak bladed support with decoration of concentric aves of circles carved by gouging; a plain bladed support; a mahogany bladed support with ribbed haft, initialled I.H. in brass tacks; an ash support; a sycamore bladed support with very large needle orifice; and an oak bladed support with very large needle orifice. Display labelled 16. Unmounted.
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