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Author Read, Brian, 1939- author.

Title Metal sewing-thimbles found in Britain / Brian Read ; principal illustrator, Mike Trevarthen
Published Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 88 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
Contents Notes on Illustrations; Foreword; Metal Sewing-Thimbles; Metal Ring-Type Thimbles; Metal Domed Thimbles; Metal Open-Top Thimbles; Metal Finger-Guards; Metal Palm-Irons; Metal So-called Palm Guards; Bibliography
Summary This reference work deals specifically with all types of sewing-thimble made from copper-alloy or silver, or either of these materials combined with iron or steel, and found in Britain. Domed, ring-type and open-top sewing-thimbles are described, among them unusual examples and others previously absent from the known record
Notes Previously issued in print: 2018
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Available through Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 8, 2018)
Subject Thimbles -- Great Britain -- History
Sewing -- Equipment and supplies -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
Antiquities
Sewing -- Equipment and supplies
Thimbles
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Antiquities -- Catalogs
Subject Great Britain
Genre/Form Catalogs
History
Form Electronic book
Author Trevarthen, Mike, illustrator
Archaeopress, publisher.
ISBN 1784919462
9781784919467