Crochet hooks

Museum number:
9-14896a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210914896a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.3464
Description:
Crochet hooks, a pair; wrought iron. Length (a): 17.8cm; (b) 18.5cm. Context: used in lacing the webbing of the cots and stools using a crochet technique in which the strands lie parallel to the bars of the frame (not the diagonal technique). Cf 9-14895 for toy chapai (cot).
Donor:
Susan Jamart
Collection place:
Ludhiana, Punjab, India
Culture or time period:
Punjabi people
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Crochet hooks
Function:
1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Crochet hooks, accession number 9-14896a,b, described as Crochet hooks, a pair; wrought iron. Length (a): 17.8cm; (b) 18.5cm. Context: used in lacing the webbing of the cots and stools using a crochet technique in which the strands lie parallel to the bars of the frame (not the diagonal technique). Cf 9-14895 for toy chapai (cot).
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Crochet hooks, accession number 9-14896a,b, described as Crochet hooks, a pair; wrought iron. Length (a): 17.8cm; (b) 18.5cm. Context: used in lacing the webbing of the cots and stools using a crochet technique in which the strands lie parallel to the bars of the frame (not the diagonal technique). Cf 9-14895 for toy chapai (cot).

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