Needle Supports (Handknitting)
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.
Metadata
| Identifier | lm2t778k |
| IRN | 412322 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/PHO/P1382 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/lm2t778k |
| 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. |