Vicki’s Vintage Vacation: The Fine Gauge of Victorian Stockings
Victorian women knitted their stockings with yarn finer than our contemporary sock yarn.
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Victorian women knitted their stockings with yarn finer than our contemporary sock yarn.
Enjoy this excerpt from “Ladies Useful Stockings to Knit,” an adaptation from Weldon’s Practical Needlework featured in PieceWork March/April 2010.
The original socks were the most expensive socks for sale in the Gjirokastra gift shop where I purchased them. According to the shopkeeper, the higher price was attributable to the fine quality of the heavy wool yarn used to knit the sock.
The complex, counted-thread queen stitch (American) is also known as the rococo (English) and renaissance stitches.
We now offer the fourth in our five-part series of Frances’s Knitted-Lace sampler re-creations, Mary Elizabeth’s “Lace No. 12.”
Have you been knitting along with our Weldon’s mystery project series?
The caption reads: Molly Brown, the unsinkable daughter of an Irish immigrant, wears a dress lavishly trimmed with Irish crochet.
Net embroidery was fairly simple to do but required patience. Catherine would have traced the design on paper or cloth, then basted cotton bobbinet over it, keeping the net straight and not too tight as she mounted it on a simple pasteboard frame.
This week, we feature the second in a series of Frances’s re-creations, Mary Elizabeth’s Lace Insertion.
The story of Mary Elizabeth Greenwall Edie’s knitted-lace sampler book is included in the May/June 2016 issue of PieceWork. We asked Frances H. Rautenbach to re-create several of Mary Elizabeth’s samples.
One thing no refined home could do without was a pincushion. Victorian pincushions ran the gamut from practical to ornate.
The story of Mary Elizabeth Greenwall Edie’s knitted-lace sampler book is included in the May/June 2016 issue of PieceWork.