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Victorian manuals

Cornelia Mee ‘For A Comforter’ and The Quest for Victorian Double Knitting

From Cornelia Mee and Miss Austin’s ‘First Series of The Knitter’s Companion’. 'Child's Sock' Knitted in silk (blue) and wool (cream)

 https://archive.org/details/victorianknittingmanuals “THE WORK-TABLE MAGAZINE by MRS MEE and MISS AUSTIN… This is, of course, a lady’s periodical. The mysteries of the needle are illustrated by plates, some of them coloured, which will  no doubt be clear enough to the bright eyes that may examine them; but which to ours are as impenetrable as Egyptian hieroglyphics.” […]

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Charlotte Bronte’s Baby Socks

© The Bronte Society

        ‘The Knitter’, Issue 100, is out now and in the shops. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Bronte’s birth, this year, I’ve contributed an article about a fascinating and previously unknown piece of knitting; a pair of baby socks, made for Charlotte’s baby,  which were destined never to be worn. […]