- Date
- 1900 – 1940
- Material
- metal; fibre
- Catalogue Number
- 104.45.0022 a,b
- Description
- Two, small, silver, boat shaped shuttles pointed at each end. Sides joined together by a central post, while the points almost touch. (a) patterned, ornately worked on either sides with scrolled vines and flowers. Plain, smooth, oval area at middle of each side. Thick oval bar separates the two sid…
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- Title
- Tatting Shuttle
- Date
- 1900 – 1940
- Material
- metal; fibre
- Dimensions
- 0.7 x 1.8 x 6.1 cm
- Description
- Two, small, silver, boat shaped shuttles pointed at each end. Sides joined together by a central post, while the points almost touch. (a) patterned, ornately worked on either sides with scrolled vines and flowers. Plain, smooth, oval area at middle of each side. Thick oval bar separates the two sides. Points at one end of different lengths, with the longer curling back slightly as if a hook were broken off there. Marks: stamped into a curlicue on both sides, "Sterling A", inner bobbin wound with thick white thread. (b) plain, smooth, unpatterned silver sides separated by a bow shaped bar at the middle, at one end, one point longer than the other by .4 cm. Inner bobbin wound with thick white thread. Marks: on middle bar, "Sterling".
- Subject
- households
- hobbies
- craft
- tatting
- Russell Robb
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.45.0022 a,b
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