- Wikidata identifier:
- Q5147772
- Instance of:
- historic house museum; independent museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited museum
- Accreditation number:
- 1203
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q5147772/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Social History Collection
The Domestic collection contains furniture, ceramics, costume, books and laundry, kitchen, baking and rugmaking equipment. All the large furniture is displayed and no new items are likely to be collected. The ceramics range from storage jars to table ware and commemoratives. Costume is largely ladies’ underwear, nightware and dress accessories with some children’s wear. Household linen and other textiles cover the range from doillies to cushion covers and samplers. Also general local history material and an interesting small group of suffragette items. Laundry equipment is used in the schools programme. This domestic collection represents 40% of the catalogued items.
Subjects
Social History
Science and Industry Collection
Two separate collections are recognised: textile collection equipment and clog making. The textile collection is 3 witch looms, several spinning wheels, a replica spinning jenny, warping frame and creel, replica cropping bench and books and associated small items of equipment for making cloth. 10% of the catalogued items. The clog making collection consists largely of tools, jigs, lasts, benches, clog furniture and finished clogs. The collection also includes old stock, discontinued tools and materials, dies for stamping out clasps and printing blocks for illustrating trade catalogues from former clog manufacturers. 25% of the catalogued items.
Subjects
Science and Industry
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC