PENELOPE HEMINGWAY
Today (April 21st) is the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Bronte’s birth. To celebrate, here is the text of a piece I wrote for a magazine, in 2012. This piece concentrates on the knitting sticks in the Bronte Parsonage Museum’s collection. As well as sticks, there are extant Bronte textiles, including knitted items. Recently, […]
That title’s with apologies to Stevie Smith. Today, an interruption in putting up photos of the gansey patterns in ‘River Ganseys’. Thought I’d put everything I have about swaving here, in one post. This is ongoing research and by no means complete so not the last word on the subject- just the first few […]
PENELOPE HEMINGWAY 