Tatting bobbin
Category
Tools
Date
Unknown
Materials
Brass, Coloured glass, Mahogany
Measurements
110 x 15 x 9 mm
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Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion
NT 549546
Summary
Dark mahogany tatting bobbin for lace. Cylindrical profile with multiple grooves and collars, two brass wire sections in middle, narrower section below thistle finial. With 5 glass beads - 2 clear and rose streaked squares, 2 clear squares with impressed surfaces, 1 opaque white bun-shaped with purple swirls. Handwritten label, inscribed - 'Lace bobbin brass wire decoration 2/6 part C'.
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 brass wire decoration 2/6 part C (label)