Knitting - A Peek Into The Past

A study of a 13th-century votic knit fragment
by Anneke Lyffland
citicas@yahoo.co.uk
Abstract

A piece of a 13th-Century mitten was found in a Votic [12] cemetery in Jõuga in 1949, but remained largely unknown until the beginning of 21st Century. A brief study has been published that describes the properties of fibre, yarn and colour. The knitting aspect of [...]

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Encyclopedia of Needlework - INTRODUCTION.

The book “Encyclopedia of Needlework” by Therese de Dillmont will be a walk down memory lane for some and provoke amusement in others because it was written in the time of our grandmothers, where the skills needed in those days were very different to today. In some chapters the author talks about how to darn [...]

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