Knitting history

"Madonna knitting Christ's seamless garment", Meister Bertram von Minden (1335-1415).

A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI knits one, purls one

The Priscilla war work book, including directions for knitted garments and comfort kits from the American Red cross, and knitted garments for the boy scout, ...

I recently decided to try something new in my historical clothing journey. Accessories is an area that I have wanted to focus on for a while now, but I have been busy with making the basics of a wardrobe. That is a time consuming process when dressing for different periods. It has always upset me that I still do not have a fully finished mid Victorian outfit and accessories do make an outfit. I have been focusing on researching outerwear and found many photos of women wearing sontags. While…

The "Knitting for Victory" group on Ravelry has been discussing what people knitted for the armed forces in Britain in World War II. I have...

As they had during World War I, people on the home front during World War II picked up their knitting needles almost as soon as the war began in September 1939. Only two months later, these girls a…

Old ancestry visit genealogy Scottish family history photograph image of a crofter kinitting outside her cottage on Fair Isle, Scotland:

Knitting is a pretty amazing craft. By moving a couple needles around and making loops in a piece of thread, you can create any piece of clothing and a wide range of other items. But where did it come from? How did the idea of looping thread around a set of knitting needles over and over again come to be? And how did it become so popular? In Who Invented Knitting? A Look into Knitting History, we hope to put an answer to those questions. Knitting has a twisted, but fascinating, history to…

^ Tom Kent, A Shetland Knitter: in this posed scene a woman knits a shawl of Shetland-lace type, while wearing a similar shawl, with another over her straw-backed chair. Other essential domestic it…

History of Supported Needle Method