Fiber - Pictures: Knitter & Crocheter

Folks doing needle arts (including celebrities); & yarn. Pins that have more backstory or that link to articles or resources are at ALL THE COOL KIDS KNIT or CROCHET
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Historygirl on Twitter: "Two Newcastle women by the quayside selling knitted garments 1880s https://t.co/pGTAPGH7vU" / Twitter
History – Woolwinding
Welsh "top hat" National costume. I love the pleated headcovering underneath too
Ugo Tognazzi sferruzza a maglia. Foto-gallery e immagini
Ugo Tognazzi ( Italian film, TV, and theatre actor, director, and screenwriter) knitting on the beach
Shetland knitter 1910 - lugging home peat while knitting. Read real history (and romanticized storytelling ) at https://kddandco.com/2009/08/10/tea-and-knitting/
New book challenges St Kilda's 'lost world' tag
Knitter on St Kilda - "Life there was similar to that in the Western Isles and west Highlands" - ("New book challenges the image of St Kilda's as a 'lost world' " - BBC News
"The world began with a woman, shawl-happed, stooped under a creel..."
"The world began with a woman, shawl-happed, stooped under a creel, whose slow step you recognise from troubled dreams. You feel obliged to help bear her burden from hill or kelp-strewn shore, but she passes by unseeing thirled to her private chore. It’s not sea birds or peats she’s carrying, not fleece, nor the herring bright but her fear that if ever she put it down the world would go out like a light." The Creel by Kathleen Jamie Image: Bringing home the peats on Stornoway)
A' giùlan mòine, Leòdhas
Knitting while lugging peat back to their crofts on Lewis. This was back-breaking work (a croft would burn between 15,000 and 18,000 peats in a year) but it kept the winter fires burning. And knitting both kept the family warmer and brought in desperately-needed cash.