Needle Supports (Handknitting)
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Needle Supports (Handknitting)
Classmark: LAVC/PHO/P1375
Related People: Castle Museum (York)()
Creator(s): Langhorne, Richard
Site Location(s): Subject - York, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.9576, -1.08271 ); Subject - Hawes, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.3039, -2.19605 ); Subject - Tebay, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom( 54.4342, -2.59363 ); Subject - Ettersgill, County Durham, England, United Kingdom ( 54.6605, -2.18443 ); Subject - Dent, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom( 54.2777, -2.45476 ); Subject - Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.1667, -1.86667 )
Date(s): 18 June 1964
Size and medium: 1 photographic print.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/412315
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Nine knitting needle supports from the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. The supports include an oak ledge sheath from Tebay (Cumbria); a hornbeam stay busk made by Thomas Tarn of Ettersgill (Durham), with heart and diamonds; a ledged ash support from Hawes ( Wensleydale); a snake-and-stick support from Dent (Cumbria); a pine sheath (gnawed by rats); a sheep tibia adapted for a needle support, with tiny patterns made with a knife; a turned bobbin from a spinning factory used as a needle support; a spinning wheel spoke used as a needle support, from Nidderdale; and an ebony turned needle support with a ringed screw in the bottom from which a bottom crook could be suspended. Display labelled 20. Unmounted.
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