Needle Supports (Handknitting)
Description
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 sticks (probably elm), secured by wire or string; a bundle of sticks enclosed in a linen poke; stick needle supports made from the branch of a plum tree; a bundle of barley straw bound with wire or string; and a bundle of barley straw enclosed in a linen poke. Mounted on Photo File card. With typed note. Originally held in Photo File: Knitting.
Metadata
| Identifier | q2z87mfh |
| IRN | 412284 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/PHO/P1344 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/q2z87mfh |
| 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 mounted photographic print. |