PieceWork · No. 7

Knitting Traditions

The eighth edition of Knitting Traditions features historical knitting articles and 21 companion knitting patterns that chronicle centuries of profit-oriented knitting throughout the world.

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By the Dexterous Use of Two Threads: Gloves and the Handknitting Industry of Sanquhar, Scotland
Author James Brown in History of Sanquhar (1891) describes Sanquhar gloves and stockings in the early nineteenth century as “being woven on wires in a peculiar manner,” which presumably means knitted on fine needles.
Angharad Thomas

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Knitting Traditions

By the Dexterous Use of Two Threads: Gloves and the Handknitting Industry of Sanquhar, Scotland