Knitting
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- By Author
- Knitting
- Brears, Peter C.D. 1981-2. "The knitting sheath." Folk life 20:16-40.
- Buckland, Kirstie. 1979. "The Monmouth cap." Costume 13:23-37.
- Croft, Pauline. 1987. "The rise of the English stocking export trade." Textile history, 18(1, Spring):3-16.
- Davenport, Millia. 1964. Book of Costume. Crown Pub. ISBN 0517037165.
- Dubuisson, Margueite. 1969. Labonneterie Au Moyen-Age.
- Grass, Milton N. and Anna. 1967. Stockings
for a Queen: The Life of the Rev. William Lee, the Elizabethan Inventor.
London: Heinemann. ASIN 0498069109. (Original knitting machine)
- Hinchcliffe, Frances, and David Cripps. 1986. Knit One, Purl One : Historic and Contemporary Knitting from the V & A's Collection. Victoria and Albert Museum. ISBN 1851770216.
- Ponting, K.G. 1979. "Knitted caps." Bulletin de Liaison du Centre International d'Etude des Textiles Anciens Lyon 49:78-81.
- Rutt, Richard. 1989. A History of Hand Knitting. Loveland, Co. : Interweave Press. ISBN 0934026351.
- Thirsk, Joan. 1973. "The fantasitcal folly of fashion : the English stocking industry, 1500-1700", p. 50-73. In Textile History and Economic History: Essays in Honour of Miss Julia de Lacy Mann. Edited by N.B. Harte and K.G. Ponting. Manchester : University Press. ISBN 719005388.
- Turnau, Irena.
- 1991. History of knitting before mass production. Translated by Agnieszka Szonert. Warszawa : Institute of the History of Material Culture, Polish Academy of Sciences. ISBN 8390021323. Originally published under: Historia dziewiarstwa europejskiego do poczatku XIX wieku (Wroclaw : Zaklad Narodowy im. Ossolinskich, 1979).
- 1983. "The diffusion of knitting in medieval Europe." Pp.368-89 in Cloth and clothing in medieval Europe: essays in memory of Professor E.M. Carus-Wilson (Pasold Studies in Textile History 2). Edited by N.B. Harte and K.G. Ponting. London: Heinemann. ISBN 0435323822.
- 1986. "The history of peasant knitting in Europe : a framework for research." Textile History 17(2, Autumn):167-179.
- 1985. "Knitted caps and hats in Europe from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century." Bulletin de Liaison du Centre International d'Etude des Textiles Anciens (61-62):87-90.
- 1982. "The Knitting Crafts in Europe from the 13th to the 18th Century." Bulletin of the Needle & Bobbin Club 65(1-2):10-42.
- Woolley, Linda. 1994. "Arab-Islamic textiles : the Bouvier Collection, medieval Arab-Islamic textiles." Hali 16(Aug/Sept):94-103.
- Naalbinding
- Hald, Margrethe
- Norlund, O. 1961. Primitive Scandinavian Textiles in Knotless netting. (Oslo)
- Steffensen, Helga. 1975. Nalebinding. Odense : Borgens.
- Other
- The Ravel'd Sleeve
- Quarterly newsletter about medieval knitting and
the reproduction of medieval knitted garments for use in research and historical recreation. Back Issues Available for $2.50 US $3.50 Canada: Asle Mitten, Tudor Flat Cap, Artisan's Helmet, Eleanor of Toledo's Stockings, Report on a Knitting exhibit, Medieval Socks and Stockings, Relic Purses, Hoggers, and Scoggers.
- Contact Melinda Shoop,aka Fiametta La Ghianda, mediknit@nwinfo.net
4002 W. Arlington Street
Yakima, WA 98908
- Early Knitting History Group and International Group
- Planned to have a regular Mailing to start in Fall of 96 coordinated by
Montse Stanley
Knitting Reference Library
P.O. Box 471
Cambridge, CB5 8XF
England
or
Pasold Research Foundation
Dept. of History
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
England.
- Double Knit Loom Instructions - 50 cents to:
Double Knit Loom
c/o Fraya Davis
1450 N. Dixie Downs #114
St. George, UT 84770
- Known World Knitters Guild, $8 to:
Melinda Shoop
4002 W. Arlington
Yakima WA 98908

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