Author: Susan M. Strawn
Publisher: Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN: 0760340110
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Enhanced with more than three hundred images, a comprehensive history of knitting in America includes twenty historical knitting patterns.
Author: Susan Strawn
Publisher: Voyageur Press
ISBN: 1610602498
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 211
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“Susan has placed the history of knitting within the context of American history, so we can clearly see how knitting is intertwined with such subjects as geography, migration, politics, economics, female emancipation, and evolving social mores. She has traced how a melting pot of knitting traditions found their way into American culture via vast waves of immigration, expanded opportunity for travel, and technology.” —Melanie Falick This is the history that Knitting America celebrates. Beautifully illustrated with vintage pattern booklets, posters, postcards, black-and-white historical photographs, and contemporary color photographs of knitted pieces in private collections and in museums, this book is an exquisite view of America through the handiwork of its knitters.
Author: Melanie Falick
Publisher: Artisan Books
ISBN: 9781579652876
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Highlighted by profiles of a number of artisans and farmers, this beautifully illustrated handbook presents thirty original knitting patterns, ranging in difficulty from basic to advanced and in style from traditional to contemporary. Originally published as Knitting in America. Reprint.
Author: G. Taylor
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780684105970
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Author: Anne L. MacDonald
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307775445
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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“Fascinating . . . What is remarkable about this book is that a history of knitting can function so well as a survey of the changes in women’s rolse over time.”—The New York Times Book Review An historian and lifelong knitter, Anne Macdonald expertly guides readers on a revealing tour of the history of knitting in America. In No Idle Hands, Macdonald considers how the necessity—and the pleasure—of knitting has shaped women’s lives. Here is the Colonial woman for whom idleness was a sin, and her Victorian counterpart, who enjoyed the pleasure of knitting while visiting with friends; the war wife eager to provide her man with warmth and comfort, and the modern woman busy creating fashionable handknits for herself and her family. Macdonald examines each phase of American history and gives us a clear and compelling look at life, then and now. And through it all, we see how knitting has played an important part in the way society has viewed women—and how women have viewed themselves. Assembled from articles in magazines, knitting brochures, newspaper clippings and other primary sources, and featuring reproductions of advertisements, illustrations, and photographs from each period, No Idle Hands capture the texture of women’s domestic lives throughout history with great wit and insight. “Colorful and revealing . . . vivid . . . This book will intrigue needlewomen and students of domestic history alike.”—The Washington Post Book World
Author: Melanie Falick
Publisher: Artisan Publishers
ISBN: 9781885183279
Category : Knitting
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The author "traveled thousands of miles to create this ... portrait of knitters, spinners, dyers, and breeders of fiber-producing animals." The book includes profiles of 38 people, plus more than 30 patterns for adult and child-sized garments.
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Category : Cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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Category : Textile industry
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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Category : Textile fabrics
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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Author: G. Taylor
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780684105970
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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