Name/Title
People knitting : a century of photographsEntry/Object ID
TT819.U6.L4Description
People Knitting is a charming tribute in vintage photographs and printed ephemera to the ever-popular, often all-consuming, craft of knitting. When women posed with their knitting in the earliest nineteenth-century photographs, it demonstrated their virtue and skill as homemakers. Later, knitting became fashionable among the wealthy as a sign of culture and artistic ability. During the two world wars, images of nurses, soldiers, prisoners, and even knitting clubs composed of very serious small boys—all with heads bent down, intent on knitting items (especially socks) for the troops—abounded. In the 1950s and 1960s, as snapshots became ubiquitous, knitters took on a jauntier air, posing with handiwork held proudly aloft. People Knitting is a quirky and fascinating gift for the knitter in your life.Lexicon
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knitting, knitting--history, knitting--pictorial worksBook Details
Author
Barbara LevinePublisher
Princeton Architectural PressDate Published
2016Call No.
TT819.U6.L4ISBN
1616893923, 9781616893927LCCN
2016005685Notes
Length: 144