Weaver's tool or ‘picker’, Joseph Lingard, Sheffield, England
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1900
name: label: maker
content: Lingard, Joseph
label: manufacturer
content: Lingard, Joseph
notes: label: Description
content: Weaver's tool or ‘picker’, Combination tweezers, cutting edge and pick-out point. Maker: "Joseph Lingard / Registered / Trade Mark". Sheffield, England.
label: Description
content: An essential element in telling the story of the hands that operated the nation’s hundreds of thousands of looms while the American textile industry was at its peak. As an industrial story, in addition, is the preference of textile workers in many countries for certain categories of English-made tools, and the transition of certain types of textile tool-making from its original sources in Europe to American manufacturers, first in New England and the mid-Atlantic states and by the 1920s, in the southeastern US.
label: Description
content: ATHM Collection: # 1986.6; museum purchase
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Sheffield, Sheffield
label: manufacturer
content: United Kingdom: England, Sheffield, Sheffield
label: made at
content: United Kingdom: England, Sheffield, Sheffield
topic: label: used
content: weaving
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: American Textile History Museum Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0232.19
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0232.19
label: accession number
content: 2017.0232
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tool, weaver's
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (overall material)