Archive for the 'Interesting Links' Category

Pictures from the Past

Thursday, June 14th, 2007

I’ve been looking through the Library Of Congress’s Prints and Photographs Online Catalog. It has some great images.
It seems that before women had swifts they had men:

that knitting in groups is no new thing:

and that knitting transcends age and social status:

Knit Your Bit

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

The American Red Cross online Museum has an interesting collection of patterns from the World War II era patterns designed for servicemen.

In the same vein the V&A has some patterns from “Essentials for the Forces”, for British service men and women in WWII.
My 1941 “Lux Book” magazine contains an entire supplement of patterns suitable for [...]

Patterns that smell like your basement?

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

Hmm, that interesting title comes from the description of an article in the latest edition of Knitty about knitting from vintage patterns: http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEwinter06/FEATvintage.html
It’s an interesting read and the author, Kristen Rengren, has a cute vintage shrug pattern on her web site.