Pin ball sewing equipment
Category
Costume
Date
1807
Materials
Cotton
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349994
Summary
Pin ball sewing equipment - White and blue knitted cotton, 2 circles of knitting joined along edges and stuffed to form shape. Handmade cord wrapped around the circumference and extending into loop. Hand knitted and sewn. On one hemisphere 2 styalised animals and a heart flanked by initals'A' and 'S' and '1807', on the other a eight pointed star and triangles arranged round the circumference.
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade