Tatting bobbin
Category
Tools
Date
Unknown
Materials
Brass, Coloured glass, Plum
Measurements
110 x 15 x 6 mm
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Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion
NT 549544
Summary
Plum tatting bobbin for lace. Cylindrical profile with multiple collars and grooves, four sections of wound brass wire and narrower section below thistle finial. With 5 glass beads - 1 clear blue discoid, 2 clear squares with impressed surfaces, 2 rose and clear squares with impressed surfaces. 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)