Handknitting: Top Crook

Original object type: Artefact
Title: Handknitting: Top Crook
Description:
Elderly female handknitting using traditional curved needles, and demonstrating the use of a top crook, Burtersett ( Wensleydale). The top crook is hooked into the top of a stocking, and attached to a length of string which carries the stocking to the left around the waist where it is held firmly in place to support its weight during knitting. A wooden knitting sheath with bent needle inserted is visible under the knitter's right arm. Mounted on Photo File card with LAVC/PHO/P1338. With typed note.
Originally held in Photo File: Knitting.
Date range: [1960s]
Date: 1960
Subjects: University Subjects > Linguistics and Phonetics