Tatting bobbin
Category
Tools
Date
Unknown
Materials
Coloured glass, Plum
Measurements
117 x 17 x 5 mm
Order this imageCollection
Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion
NT 549526
Summary
Plum tatting bobbin for lace. Thistle shaped finial on a slender cylindrical stem, leading to a wider reeded stem. With 7 glass beads - 2 cut amber, 2 white, 2 cut red and 1 pink and white. Handwritten label, inscribed: 'Lace bobbin yellow two cut beads 2/6'.
Provenance
An item from the Pamela Ward Collection, left to the National Trust in the will of Miss Ward in 1994.
Marks and inscriptions
Lace bobbin yellow 2 cut beads 2/6 (label)