Collection Item: Pincushion
Basic info
- Collection
- Costume and Textiles
- Object name
- Pincushion
- Object category
- Textile crafts
- Object subcategory
- Sewing
- Description
- Disc pincushion knitted in dark blue/black silk with a white pattern. Obverse: Urn with flowering sprays. Reverse: Rose within laurel wreath. Side: Inscription, "From the Retreat near York." The edges are finished with white twist.
- Production date start
- 1793
- Production date end
- 1830
Identification
- Object number
- YORCM : BA1793
- Number of objects
- 1
- ID
- 10011331
Physical Characteristics
- Materials
- Silk (Whole)
Production
- Location
- York
- Technique
- Knitted
- School/style
- Quaker
