Not usually much of one for princesses – to the point I throw up at first sight of a Disney princess – but this is one who had her own spinning school! Got to admire a woman with her own spinning school! I’ve been researching much lowlier spinning and knitting schools of the 18thC and [...]
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High-end Spinning Schools
Posted in handspinning, History, Textile Arts on March 31, 2011 | 4 Comments »
“You’re Doing It All Wrong!”
Posted in ganseys, Genealogy, guernseys, Knitting on March 4, 2011 | 16 Comments »
It looks like I’ve been neglecting the knitters for the genealogists here, so I wanted to post today just for the patient knitsters. Here are the famous Hawes knitters from ‘The Costume of Yorkshire Illustrated By A Series of Forty Engravings Being Fac-Similies of Original Drawings’ By George Walker, 1814. I do so love a [...]
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