Tatting bobbin
Category
Tools
Date
Unknown
Materials
Coloured glass, Lead, Plum
Measurements
123 x 22 x 10 mm
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Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion
NT 549536
Summary
Plum tatting bobbin for lace. Wide reeded rings along body with protruding lead dots. Slender reel at end with thistle finial. With 5 glass beads - 2 yellow, 2 rose and 1 purple. Handwritten label, inscribed: 'Lace bobbin pewter spots leopard 10/- 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 (pewter spots) leopard 10/- D (label)