Needle Supports (Handknitting)
Description
Nine carved wooden needle supports from villages in the Eden Vale (Cumbria), including Bolton, Kirkby Stephen, Lambrigg, Newbiggin-on-Lune, Crosby Garrett and Warcop. The supports form part of the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York, and include a bladed support with a cross pattern [dated ?1701] and initialled E.W.; a bladed support with floral motif; a bladed support with a deep groove across the body; a bladed support with punched triangular pattern and initials B.C.; a bladed support with border pattern and carving on haft; a bladed support with diagonal and box patterns and initials S.G.; a bladed support with spiral haft; a turned support; and a bladed support with [?ivory] ferrule topping the haft. Display labelled 5. Unmounted.
Metadata
| Identifier | kqkct14j |
| IRN | 412307 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/PHO/P1367 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/kqkct14j |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Lace Making: Photocards |
| Creator(s) | Langhorne, Richard |
| Date | 18 June 1964 |
| Size and Medium | 1 photographic print. |