- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Bobbin or weaving shuttle made of wood and metal. Attached to the shuttle is a pirn or quill of rolled paper wound with dark blue machine spun cotton yarn.
- Long description
- Weaving shuttle made of wood and metal. Rectangular section of wood carved to form points at either end, and with an oval section removed from the centre. Attached is a pirn or quill of rolled paper wound with dark blue machine spun cotton yarn. Two rollers inserted into rectangular holes carved into one side of the shuttle. [IL [OPS Move] 27/3/2017]
- Geographical reference
- England West Yorkshire Huddersfield
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 2002
- Date collected
- By 2002
- Acquisition information
- Found unentered: 31/01/2002
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Metal, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Process Carved, Process Forged (Metal)
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 23 mm, Width: max 38 mm, Length: max 302 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2002.21.1
- Research and responses
?Schofield and Sims, Ltd., Huddersfield are the publishers of the booklet, not the maker of the shuttle winder, they are educational publishers see http://www.schofieldandsims.co.uk/ [AP 02/05/2007]
2002.21.1
Bobbin or weaving shuttle made of wood and metal. Attached to the shuttle is a pirn or quill of rolled paper wound with dark blue machine spun cotton yarn.
2002.21.1
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