Tatting bobbin
Category
Tools
Date
Unknown
Materials
Coloured glass, Plum
Measurements
107 x 17 x 19 mm
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Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion
NT 549539
Summary
Plum tatting bobbin for lace. Cylindrical with spiral grooves, narrower section below thistle finial. With 9 beads - 4 opaque blue discoid, 2 faceted clear amber circular, 2 clear green squares with impressed surfaces, 1 large opaque white circular. Handwritten label, inscribed - 'Bobbin spiral twist turning wood 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
Bobbin spiral twist turning wood D (label)