Tatting bobbin
Category
Tools
Date
Unknown
Materials
Coloured glass, Plum
Measurements
111 x 17 x 7 mm
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Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion
NT 549538
Summary
Plum tatting bobbin for lace. Cylindrical and tapering with multiple collars and grooves, three reels in middle, thistle finial. With 7 glass beads - 2 opaque white discoid, 2 rose and clear banded squares with impressed surfaces, 2 clear squares and 1 opaque blue discoid with white and red streaks. Handwritten label, inscribed: 'Lace bobbin plum wood 8/- 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 plum wood 8/- D (label)