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Historical Knitting Online

A brief selection from the myriad online pages relating to the history of knitting, including original items, equipment, patterns and historical reconstructions. These are external websites - the quality of links varies and the accuracy of information and opinions contained cannot be guaranteed.

Knitting and the Knitting Industry:

  • Knitting Together (an history of the East-Midlands knitting industry)

  • The Dales Knitting Tradition

  • The Keyworth Framework Knitting Industry

    • Extant Knitted Items:

  • A Study of a 13th-Century Votic Knit Fragment (PDF file)

  • Knitting Recovered from the Mary Rose

  • Child’s knitted undershirt: 16th century

  • Boy’s circular knitted cap: 16th century

  • Knitting & Crochet Guild Collection: 18th Century

  • Knitting & Crochet Guild Collection: 19th Century

  • Knitting from the Powerhouse Museum Collection

  • Shetland Museums Service - Textiles

  • Norfolk Museums & Archaeology Service: Fishermen's ganseys

    • Knitting Tools and Accessories:

  • Antique Sock Knitting Machines

  • Knitting Belt or Wisker (Moray Council)

  • Knitting Sheath (BM&AG)

  • Knitting Sheaths (Brecknock Museum & Art Gallery)

  • Nineteenth-century Knitting Implements (LCP)

    • Period Knitting Patterns

  • Godey’s Lady’s Book: Work (Crochet, Knitting, Needlework, etc 1852-1860)

  • Patterns from “The Ladies’ Self-Instructor”, 1859

  • The Work-Table (The Ladies Treasury of Costume and Fashion)

  • Mrs. Stone’s Historical Knitting

  • Knitting Patterns from “Home Work”, 1891

  • Knitwear Patterns & Instructions from Columbia Yarns c.1916-1922

  • Patterns from “Fleisher’s Knitting and Crocheting Manual”, 1922

  • 1940s Patterns to Knit (V&A)

  • 1950s-1960s Vintage Knitting Patterns

  • Downloadable Vintage Knitting Patterns

    • Historical Reconstructions

  • Recreation of A Medieval Egyptian Sock in The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C

  • Hand Knit Hose

  • English Woman’s Knit Wool Stockings, 16th Century

  • The Carnamoyle Stockings - Irish Wool Stockings from the 16th Century

  • Knitted Man’s Hat from the Ship “Gagiana”, 1583

  • Knitted Monmouth Cap

  • Notes on Eighteenth Century Stockings

  • Ch'ullu-style Hat

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