Needle Supports (Handknitting)
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Needle Supports (Handknitting)
Classmark: LAVC/PHO/P1380
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 - Great Asby, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom( 54.5145, -2.49098 ); Subject - Sandford, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom( 54.5388, -2.4218 )
Date(s): 18 June 1964
Size and medium: 1 photographic print.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/412320
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Five carved wooden knitting sheaths from villages in the Eden Vale (Cumbria), including Great Asby, Sandford and Langford. The supports form part of the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York, and include a sheath with a deep ledge for belt or waistband; a plain sheath; a sheath with a curve cut into the blade; a sheath with a floral motif; and a sheath with floral motif, heart and initials S.D.1877. Display labelled C. Unmounted.
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