Recently, I was behind the scenes at The Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes. There to read the (unpublished) diary of Marie Hartley, one of the co-authors of ‘The Old Hand-Knitters of the Dales’ (1951). I’ll be transcribing the relevant parts of Miss Hartley’s diary over the coming months. Earlier diaries covered her writing partnership with […]
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First published in ‘Knit Edge’, No 3, May, 2013. Putting a name and finding the life story to one of one Dent knitter. Margaret Thwaite: A Knitter of Dent in the York Retreat Asylum “…remains without material change. July 28 .. She still knits away with a piece of string and pieces of wool and […]
Or: or “How The New Edition of This Book Beloved By Knitters, Came About….” Today I thought I’d give an insight into how we put together the new edition of “The Old Hand-Knitters of the Dales”, that classic, much-loved book on the history of Yorkshire knitting… Ella Pontefract and Marie Hartley produced six books together, […]
It still doesn’t feel real, to me, but… The new edition of ‘The Old Hand-Knitters of the Dales’ is here! Our new edition reproduces the text of the 1951 First Edition, but we have added a Dales glove pattern and an Introduction, which gives biographical information about the previously mysterious writers/illustrator, Misses Hartley and Ingilby. […]
PENELOPE HEMINGWAY 