knitting


Family Textiles Inspired by Maine Lakes

A series of three knitted panels, using embroidery for details, are fiber windows onto landscapes important to the author and her family.

Herbert Niebling: Grand Master of Lace Knitting

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.

What Is a Fichu?

Though varied in style and material, the fichu was an important fashion accessory during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The Eleonora Project, Part 3: Knitting Guilds and the Medici

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?

PieceWork Summer 2022: Embellish!

Learn how the love of adornment inspired our summer Embellishment issue!

What is Latvian braid?

Who would have thought that twisting your yarns as you knit could create such a wonderful result!

Try Thérèse de Dillmont’s Beaded Turkish Stitch

Grab your knitting needles and try this Victorian beauty!

You Need to Knit the Trousseau Silk Stockings

Elaborate silk stockings inspired by history will dress up any occasion.

The Eleonora Project, Part 2: Adventures in Forensic Knitting

Sometimes it takes determination and a whole lot of detective work before the first stitch is cast on.

The Ingenious Miser’s Purse

How did the medieval practice of carrying one’s coins in a stocking evolve into this fascinating embellished Victorian-era wallet?