A series of three knitted panels, using embroidery for details, are fiber windows onto landscapes important to the author and her family.
Niebling’s designs are not for the faint of heart or the impatient knitter. Some of his larger table covers contain as many as 300 rounds, with the outer rounds comprising hundreds of stitches, all to be worked in fine thread from pages of complex charts.
Though varied in style and material, the fichu was an important fashion accessory during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
What did it mean to be a member of a knitting guild during the 1500s? Who was responsible for crafting Eleonora di Toledo’s burial stockings?
Learn how the love of adornment inspired our summer Embellishment issue!
Who would have thought that twisting your yarns as you knit could create such a wonderful result!
Grab your knitting needles and try this Victorian beauty!
Elaborate silk stockings inspired by history will dress up any occasion.
Sometimes it takes determination and a whole lot of detective work before the first stitch is cast on.
How did the medieval practice of carrying one’s coins in a stocking evolve into this fascinating embellished Victorian-era wallet?