Tatting bobbin
Category
Tools
Date
Unknown
Materials
Coloured glass, Pewter, Plum
Measurements
124 x 18 x 12 mm
Order this imageCollection
Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion
NT 549532
Summary
Plum tatting bobbin for lace. Tapered body, with pewter rings around one end. Other turned rings along body. Slender reel at other end with waisted finial. With 7 glass beads - 2 cut blue, 2 cut red, 2 cut clear and 1 white. Handwritten label, inscribed: 'Lace bobbin 59p D'.
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 59p D (label)