Handknitting: Top Crook
Description
Elderly female handknitting using traditional curved needles, and demonstrating the use of a top crook, Burtersett ( Wensleydale). The top crook is hooked into the top of a stocking, and attached to a length of string which carries the stocking to the left around the waist where it is held firmly in place to support its weight during knitting. A wooden knitting sheath with bent needle inserted is visible under the knitter's right arm. Mounted on Photo File card. With typed note. Originally held in Photo File: Knitting.
Metadata
| Identifier | cmj9pxqz |
| IRN | 412280 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/PHO/P1340 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/cmj9pxqz |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Knitting: Photocards |
| Creator(s) | Kissling, Werner |
| Date | [1960s] |
| Size and Medium | 1 mounted photographic print. |