Bone lace-making bobbin stained red, with bead weights strung on wire at one end. [FB 10/02/2015]

Collection type: Object
Description: Bone lace-making bobbin stained red, with bead weights strung on wire at one end. [FB 10/02/2015]
Long description: Bone lace-making bobbin stained red, with bead weights strung on wire at one end. The bobbin is carved from bone and decorated with incised bands. The decorative bands on the bobbin have been stained green. One end of the bobbin has been perforated with a small hole through which a length of metal wire has been threaded. The wire has been strung with nine glass beads of different sizes; two pink, two clear, one blue, one yellow, one black, one red and one pink and white. [FB 10/02/2015]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; England Buckinghamshire
Cultural groups: English
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Amy Jane Nevell; PRM source Amy Jane Nevell
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1942
Date collected: By 1942
Acquisition information: Donated: 1942
Materials and processes: Material Bone, Material Pigment, Material Metal Wire, Material Bead, Process Stained, Process Incised, Process Carved, Process Strung, Process Perforated, Process Turned
Dimensions: Length: max 120 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1942.6.4

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