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In the Fall 2018 issue of PieceWork, Carol Huebscher Rhoades offered up some fantastic tips for knitting at a fine gauge with her darling pair of baby socks based on a Victorian-era pattern from Weldon’s Practical Needlework.
Weldon’s Practical Needlework houses a wealth of information on Victorian tatting. Here’s our 22nd installment in this series from Weldon’s Practical Needlework, Volume 4.
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.
Victorian and Edwardian women, those with the leisure to make things by hand, had a different view of what textiles were necessary in their daily lives or what was worth their creative effort. . . .
This gloriously illustrated coffee-table book by Chantal Trubert-Tollu, Françoise Tétart-Vittu, Jean-Marie Martin-Hattemberg, and Fabrice Olivieri tells the story of the House of Worth.
The following are instructions for how to tat a “Chantilly Border.”
The Festival Lace Mitts were inspired by a pair from a photograph.
Here’s our 17th installment in this series from Weldon’s Practical Needlework, Volume 4, instructions for how to tat a “Square Medallion."
The modern christening gown did not appear until after 1700, when more families began to have enough wealth to be able to show it off.
Started in 1877 at Wemyss Castle by Dora Wemyss, the idea behind Wemyss School of Needlework was to teach needlework skills to the daughters of the miners and farmers in the area so that they could earn a living and be independent.
Weldon’s Practical Needlework houses a wealth of information on Victorian tatting. Here’s our 21st installment in this series from Weldon’s Practical Needlework, Volume 4. The following are instructions for how to tat a “Loop and Leaf Border.”
