Tatting bobbin
Category
Tools
Date
Unknown
Materials
Boxwood [buxus sempervirens], Coloured glass
Measurements
128 x 28 x 12 mm
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Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion
NT 549543
Summary
Boxwood tatting bobbin for lace. Cylindrical profile with five bobbins, narrower section below thistle finial. With 7 glass beads - 2 clear blue circular, 2 opaque blue bun-shaped, 2 clear amber bun-shaped, 1 large clear blue circular. Handwritten label, inscribed: 'Lace bobbin plum? 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? 8/- D (label)