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 has been carved from bone decorated with bands of incised lines. The bobbin has been stained pink. One end of the bobbin is bound with white cotton yarn. The other end of the bobbin has been perforated with a small hole through which a length of copper wire has been threaded. Five glass beads have been strung on the wire, two clear, two pink and one white and blue. [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, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Process Stained, Process Carved, Process Incised, Process Strung, Process Perforated, Process Bound
Dimensions: Length: max 107 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1942.6.12

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