sock(pair)
- Museum number
- Eu1996,02.10.a-b
- Description
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A pair of knee-length socks. The foot is made from mid-brown and unevenly dyed blue goat wool, hand knitted in a variant of western stocking stitch. Blue diagonal patterning on sole. The leg has eight narrow panels worked on the diagonal, alternating a block of plain stocking stitch with a large cable pattern.
- Production date
- 20thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 52 centimetres (a))
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Length: 53.50 centimetres (b))
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Width: 15 centimetres (each)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1996
- Acquisition notes
- Purchase price for entire collection AND collection 1996.As.02, through the BM Society Eastern European Purchase Fund.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- Eu1996,02.10.a-b