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Needle Supports (Handknitting)
Langhorne, Richard
18 June 1964
Seven early knitting needle supports from the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. The supports include a hawthorn twig with a boned orifice at the tip; a bundle of sticks, or bundley stic...
Needle Supports (Handknitting)
Langhorne, Richard
18 June 1964
Ten knitting needle supports from the Bradford district (West Yorkshire), part of the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. They include metal supports, turned wood supports and a leather p...
Needle Supports (Handknitting)
Langhorne, Richard
18 June 1964
Four wooden knitting needle supports from Ravenstonedale, part of the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. They include a mahogany support, initialled S.B., with brass tacks and decorated ...
Needle Supports (Handknitting)
Langhorne, Richard
18 June 1964
Late 19th-century wooden boot stick needle support from Teesdale, part of the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1348. With typed note.
Needle Supports (Handknitting)
Langhorne, Richard
18 June 1964
Five foot preoccupation sticks, wooden needle supports made from wooden clog soles, or carved into the shape of boots or shoes, from Teesdale (Durham), where they were widely dispersed. These needle s...
Needle Supports (Handknitting)
Langhorne, Richard
18 June 1964
28 wooden and metal needle supports from the collection of Alderman Singleton of Baildon (West Yorkshire). They include brass cavalier leg supports (examples of foot preoccupation sticks), turned wood...
Needle Supports (Handknitting)
Langhorne, Richard
18 June 1964
Four wooden needle supports from Wensleydale, part of the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. The supports here include examples made of elm and beech wood. Mounted on Photo File card.
Needle Supports (Handknitting)
Langhorne, Richard
18 June 1964
Seven wooden Dentdale recessed needle supports and bump needles, part of the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. Mounted on Photo File card. With typed note.
Needle Supports (Handknitting)
Langhorne, Richard
18 June 1964
Nine fancy knitting needle supports from Yorkshire and Durham, from the collection of Mrs. Agar of Richmond (North Yorkshire). They include supports made from bone; supports carved into the shape of f...
Needle Supports (Handknitting)
Langhorne, Richard
18 June 1964
Seven carved wooden needle supports from villages in the Eden Vale (Cumbria), including Appleby, Warcop, Kirkby Stephen (engraved with initials B.C.), Crosby Garrett (engraved with initials I.J.D.), L...
Needle Supports (Handknitting)
Langhorne, Richard
18 June 1964
Four brass needle supports from the northern Dales, part of the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1355, LAVC/PHO/P1356 and LAVC/PHO/P1357.
Needle Supports (Handknitting)
Langhorne, Richard
18 June 1964
Four brass needle supports from the northern Dales, part of the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1354, LAVC/PHO/P1356 and LAVC/PHO/P1357.