People Knitting

Author : Barbara Levine

Hardback

Published : Tuesday 4 October 2016

ISBN : 9781616893927

Price : €12.04

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Description

A lively collection of vintage photography from the 1860s through 1960s

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.

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