SUBPunchinello Caps for Knitting Needles to Knit
Cast on Ann Budd’s adaptation of “Punchinello Caps for Knitting Needles” from Weldon’s Practical Needlework, Volume 11.
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SUBCast on Ann Budd’s adaptation of “Punchinello Caps for Knitting Needles” from Weldon’s Practical Needlework, Volume 11.
All sorts of household advice can be found in the Natura Exenterata, even a pattern for socks!
In Maine and Nova Scotia, there really is a tradition of knitting shrinking Fishermen’s mittens.
Eyelets and a fancy crocheted edging add a lacy touch to Ann Budd’s Knit a Ribbed Scarf with a Crocheted Edging, adapted from Weldon’s Practical Needlework.
Read about Victorian tourists who embraced all things Scottish after reading Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley novels.
Thank you, James Smithson for making the Smithsonian become a reality.
Nancy Bush designed a special knit for a very special occasion—wedding gloves.
Seeking freedom of religion, Ann Lee, left England to establish the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing in the United States, a religious group founded in the eighteenth century.
Celebrate the coronation with the story behind a shawl for Prince William.
Records from the distant past don’t say much about women, yet every now and then we get fleeting glimpses of the history of textiles.
Then Athens and the city-state of Sparta got into a long conflict, the Peloponnesian War, and that’s where our latest story about women’s work comes in.
Women have been involved with textiles throughout time; after all, they have been inspired by a goddess!