Numero oggetto
2023/17
Descrizione
This wooden knitting sheath has elaborate carving and the initials 'MCRI' and the date '1733-4'. The sheath is carved from one piece of wood with a chain at one end and a ball inside a cage. The knitting sheath was designed to help a knitter knit faster and support the end of the knitting needle. Knitting sheaths were often given as love tokens.
Descrizione fisica
1 knitting sheath : wood
Storico archivio
Email from Ollie Douglas to MERL staff, 21 May 2021 - 'At some point during the last year or so (certainly since the start of the pandemic restrictions and since post has been an unfamiliar entity) I received a cardboard tube in the post. My memory is too bad to know precisely when it arrived I’m afraid. It was special delivery so has no date stamp. ... It turns out that it contains an eighteenth-century knitting sheath – a piece of ‘treen’ or carved woodwork – with absolutely no further information about origin, donor, or provenance.'
Data
1733 - 1734
Nome oggetto
Materiale
Dimensioni
- Length 200 mm
- Length 180 mm
