Knitted Socks from the Gobi Desert
Donna Druchunas’ Gobi Desert Socks were based them on the pair of knitted socks purchased on a trip to Mongolia by Long Thread Media’s founder Linda Ligon.
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Donna Druchunas’ Gobi Desert Socks were based them on the pair of knitted socks purchased on a trip to Mongolia by Long Thread Media’s founder Linda Ligon.
These party socks were inspired by a number of historic socks Nancy Bush has been fortunate to see in various museums over the last ten years.
This pattern for spiral-ribbed socks, from Weldon’s Practical Needlework, Volume 30, dates from 1914.
Handknitted socks are the luxury of the wearer. They’re a private pleasure to enjoy inside one's boot, or they add a pop of color at the boundary of a shoe.
The glorious stockings of Bulgaria are easy to knit but include some techniques that may be unfamiliar to Western knitters.
Over the years, we at PieceWork have written a lot about the delightful patterns featured in Weldon’s Practical Needlework, and we’re especially smitten by Weldon’s Victorian-era socks.
A fictional character named Agnes, from the novel Secrets in the Lace, gets a pair of handknitted stockings.
One of the most fascinating structural elements of the Turkish socks featured in Lynne Hershberger’s article is the heel construction.
A Victorian Knitted Stocking Challenge: this design is based on an interpretation of original instructions for “A Knitted Stocking” in an 1845 book.
The amount of attention given in Weldon’s Practical Needlework to knitting stockings gives us a major clue as to their “useful article” of choice to make.
This project was adapted from Nancy Bush’s Folk Socks: The History & Techniques of Handknitted Footwear. In addition to the Egyptian Socks, there were patterns for seventeen other designs, all inspired by traditional, historic references.
Jacqueline Fee recounts how she came to knit the Brewster socks, which were based on an original sock that was brought to her attention by her daughter.