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Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Archive Item: LAVC/PHO/P1376 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/PHO/P1376

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 - Edenhall, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom( 54.683, -2.6792 )

Date(s): 18 June 1964

Size and medium: 1 photographic print.

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/412316

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

Description

Seven carved wooden foot preoccupation knitting needle supports, from the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. The supports are largely from Teesdale (Durham), and include the birch base of a child's clog, with a hole bored in the heel into which the haft is dowelled and glued; the birch base of a child's clog with a mahogany haft; an oak clog base-shaped support with deeply recessed ledge for belt or waistband; a clog base-shaped support with ledge for belt or waistband and haft reinforced by a circular brass tube, from Edenhall (Cumbria); a beech stick in the shape of a bare leg and ladies' boot with brass tacks for the boot buttons, initials F.W. and inscription Health and Prosperity in Indian ink; a stick in the shape of a bare foot, leg and thigh, with grooves indicating the toe divisions; and a stick in the shape of a booted trouser leg. Display labelled 22. Unmounted.

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