Last Sunday saw the very first Vintage festival at Farnham Maltings. Giles and I donned our most comfortable vintage-look clothes as it was a bit of a journey for us. As you can see we didn’t go that far back, perhaps to the 60s or 70s. We definitely felt ‘the part’ while we were there […]
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As some of you might know, I work at Arbour House Publishing, who publish Susan Crawford’s vintage knitting patterns and in honour of her new knitting kit which is now available to buy from the knitonthenet shop, I have knitted one of my own. But before you decide whether a turban is your next knitting
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The latest edition(Jan/Feb 2011) of US textile history magazine PieceWork winged its way through my letterbox yesterday and I am very pleased to tell you that I have an article published therein. The Bestway Men’s Glove Pattern I wrote a micro-study of a 1940s Bestway men’s glove pattern which has been in my family for
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This was meant to be one of those New Year posts. You know the ones? ‘This is what I’ll be up to this year and these are my resolutions’. Hmm, well. It isn’t one of those posts anymore, and not only because it isn’t the newest of new years anymore. I don’t really tend to
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Girls knitting, 1918. Image courtesy of UA Archives. Hand knitting was brought formally into the British school syllabus with the 1870 Education Act. It had been taught in many schools, and especially to girls for long before that, but was not formalised until the late 19th century. By the time of the First World War,
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