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 in bone with incised bands which have been stained pink. One end of the bobbin has been perforated and threaded with a length of metal wire on which has been strung with eleven glass beads, two white, four pink, four clear and one red. [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 Incised
Dimensions: Length: max 125 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1942.6.14