Earlier this week I visited the Knitting Reference Library in Winchester to research some of their 1930s journals. I packed my lunch (banana sandwiches, as you ask), left the house and caught the train in the dark, drizzly gloom of a November morning. On arrival in Winchester, I was greeted with banks of beautiful, fiery, […]
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In this now highly entertaining video from the 1930s, ‘top US fashion designers’ (unnamed) had been asked to design what they felt the woman of the year 2000 would be wearing. The resulting designs included predicting the end of the skirt, that we might wear floaty trousers with electric belts to regulate temperature, that wedding
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Here’s a reminder that there are still places available to attend the TRIP (Textile Research in Progress) conference next month in Loughborough. I would dearly love to attend myself as the conference is very much in my area of interest, but sadly cannot afford to this time around. That’s why you’ve all got to go
Knitting instruction manuals have been produced from the nineteenth century onwards, at which time the patterns were often known as recipes or reciepts. Both the learner and the more experienced knitter may have consulted these books to learn new skills and improve their technique as well as finding instructions for new stitch patterns and garments,
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A condition of my Dad’s impending retirement is that he must, of course have a sleeveless jumper to wear to celebrate this milestone… and to look properly retired, you know? I was given the instruction that it must be a sludgy colour, not too thick and with ‘none of that fancy nonsense’. This was later
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