Making Felt: A Timeless Textile Which Is Easy to Create
Making felt is an ancient art, possibly the oldest method of creating fabric on record.
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Making felt is an ancient art, possibly the oldest method of creating fabric on record.
Weldon’s-era Victorian knitters had some interesting ideas and innovations for sock heels particular to various countries from the United Kingdom to the continent.
Enjoy this excerpt from “Ladies Useful Stockings to Knit,” an adaptation from Weldon’s Practical Needlework featured in PieceWork March/April 2010.
Meet Alan and Milissa Dewey, the fiber-tool restoration duo behind Bobbin Boy.We had to know more about these superheroes of the spinning world.
PieceWork invited Spin Off editor Anne Merrow to give us an inside perspective about Nilda Callañaupa Alvarez's video workshop, Andean Knitting.
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.
The crown stitch is basically a fly stitch with the additional two straight stitches that further anchor the top-loop leg.
In “Knitted Together Through Time” Jacqueline Blix revisits a family heirloom shawl knit by Joseph Sheldon Long, a World War I soldier.
I never thought I would warn you to not make something from Weldon’s, but these projects are unsafe for any home. Do Not Try This!
Read more of female accomplishments and Victorian words of wisdom from Ladies’ Needlework available as a PieceWork eBook.
We now offer the fourth in our five-part series of Frances’s Knitted-Lace sampler re-creations, Mary Elizabeth’s “Lace No. 12.”