Did you know that Muhu gloves were usually made for the dowry, and a bride may have given up to a hundred pairs to her new family?
Here’s our 16th installment in this series from Weldon’s Practical Needlework, Volume 4, how to tat a “Round Loop Edging.”
A dainty knitted pair of baby socks decorated with pink and green tulips inspired this project and my admiration for their maker, Tamsen Dame McBride.
How do you create the shading and shifting gradients that make Fair Isle knitting so irresistible? You can start with fibers that are all exactly the color you need, or you can blend them yourself!
As queen, opulence and splendor were no strangers to Elizabeth I. This included Elizabeth’s embroidered clothing and her knitted silk stockings.
Donna Druchunas’s lovely lace socks, featured in the PieceWork, were made for dancing—traditional Spanish-style dancing of the Charras from Salamanca, Spain.
A fictional character named Agnes, from the novel Secrets in the Lace, gets a pair of handknitted stockings.
Margaret Stove’s knitting and design are known around the world—after all, she received the Queen’s Service Medal and designed official gifts for 2 royal babies.
Crochet has proven to be a perfect technique to mimic other forms of lace, including bobbin lace, filet, tatting, Venetian needle lace, and drawn thread work.
What stories are captured in the stitches of a knitted shawl? Every time I see a piece of historical knitting, I find myself wondering about the person who made it and the person who wore it.