Tatting bobbin
Category
Tools
Date
Unknown
Materials
Coloured glass, Pewter, Plum
Measurements
108 x 20 x 8 mm
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Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion
NT 549537
Summary
Plum tatting bobbin for lace. Cylindrical with turned sections and collars, studded with staggered pewter dots, thistle finial. With 5 glass beads - 2 rose and clear banded squares with impressed surface, 2 clear discoid, 1 opaque discoid with blue and orange streaks. 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)