Needle Supports (Handknitting)
Description
Nine knitting needle supports from the Whitehead Collection at the Castle Museum, York. The supports include an oak ledge sheath from Tebay (Cumbria); a hornbeam stay busk made by Thomas Tarn of Ettersgill (Durham), with heart and diamonds; a ledged ash support from Hawes ( Wensleydale); a snake-and-stick support from Dent (Cumbria); a pine sheath (gnawed by rats); a sheep tibia adapted for a needle support, with tiny patterns made with a knife; a turned bobbin from a spinning factory used as a needle support; a spinning wheel spoke used as a needle support, from Nidderdale; and an ebony turned needle support with a ringed screw in the bottom from which a bottom crook could be suspended. Display labelled 20. Unmounted.
Metadata
| Identifier | xgjbrrjg |
| IRN | 412315 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/PHO/P1375 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/xgjbrrjg |
| 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. |