Knitting Belt - 3D Model

• Main Authors: Catherine Anne Cassidy, Jacquie Aitken, Iain Oliver, Alan Miller
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: CINE; 3-D Object; Helmsdale 1890; Timespan; CULTURAL HERITAGE; HISTORY; Digital Humanities; Digital Heritage; Arctic; Aitken; Cassidy
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4555586

3D model of aleather knitting belt fromTimespan's collection. This belt was used for sewing and spinning and was sometimes worn by herring gutting girls while kntting jumpers.Physical object held at the Timespan Museum. Part of the Helmsdale Fishing Village reconstruction. A collaborative project between Open Virtual Worlds , a research team within the School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews and Timespan Museum . 3D digitisation was done by Catherine Cassidy and Iain Oliver with archaeological assistanceprovided by Jacquie Aitken. Digitisation funded by the EU Northern Periphery and Arctic Programme 2014-2020 through the “Connected Culture and Natural Heritage in a Northern Environment” ( CINE ) project.