Description |
1 online resource (650 pages) |
Contents |
Introduction: The Status of Knitting; The Historical Background; Missionaries and Settlers; Reading the Recipes; Soldiers, Sailors and Sportsmen; Cardigans and Corsets; Warm Socks from Warm Hearts; Knitting Between the Wars; Another War and More Khaki Socks; Shortages, Rations and Greasy Jerseys; Fashion, Business and Money; Making and Selling Yarn; Pattern Books and Leaflets; The Good Life; Learning and Teaching; Knitting for Love and Glory; Protest and Politics; Real Men Do Knit; a last word; glossary; selected bibliography |
Summary |
The Loving Stitch is an engaging history of a subject never before explored but familiar to many New Zealanders. Heather Nicholson's knowledge of knitting and spinning is formidable but she also knows how to tell a good story and has a keen sense of humor. The Loving Stitch presents a chronological account of antipodean knitting, which is also a history of the domestic lives of women, of their resourcefulness, their talent and sociability. She follows the growth of pattern books, the role of knitting for troops in the two world wars, knitting in the Depression and the recent |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Knitting -- New Zealand -- History
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Spinning -- New Zealand -- History
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CRAFTS & HOBBIES -- Needlework -- Knitting.
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Knitting
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Spinning
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New Zealand
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781775581932 |
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1775581934 |
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