Needle Supports (Handknitting)

Description

Five carved wooden needle supports from villages and towns on the River Lune (Cumbria), in the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. Includes examples of bladed supports from Newbiggin-on-Lune, Cautley, Tebay and Gaisgill. One of the examples from Cautley is carved with a zigzag pattern, and initials F.W. Display labelled 1. Unmounted.

Metadata

Identifier pjgjhg7m
IRN 412305
Class Mark LAVC/PHO/P1365
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/pjgjhg7m
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.

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