Needle Supports (Handknitting)
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Needle Supports (Handknitting)
Classmark: LAVC/PHO/P1382
Related People: Castle Museum (York)()
Creator(s): Langhorne, Richard
Site Location(s): Subject - York, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.9576, -1.08271 ); Subject - Skipton, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.9614, -2.01676 ); Subject - Temple Sowerby, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom( 54.6347, -2.60187 )
Date(s): 18 June 1964
Size and medium: 1 photographic print.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/412322
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Eight children's toy knitting needle supports, in the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. Includes a cedar sheath from Skipton (North Yorkshire), reinforced with a hen quill; a sycamore stick from Clapham (North Yorkshire) with a groove cut for waist tape, and initials A.W.; an ash stick with twin orifice needle support, a shallow groove to accommodate a waistband, and delicate chip-carving; an elm stick from Spitals near Temple Sowerby (Cumbria); a mahogany sheath with brass-capped haft and initials E.S. in brass tacks, deeply recessed ledge, gouge decorations at the blade head, and three lines of brass tacks on the left edge of the blade; a walnut ball-in-cage stick with the inscription Forget me not in typescript underneath a sheet of glass, and fretted diamond and circle decoration; and a plum wood sheath with initials E.B. in pen and ink; and a sheath with all-over triangle decoration. Display labelled 21. Unmounted.
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