tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2805580631057957340.post3876255364579786036..comments2024-03-27T08:38:55.922+00:00Comments on Knitting Now and Then: Giant WoolBarbarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16481362252017232022noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2805580631057957340.post-5832979732590167332014-02-28T21:54:52.497+00:002014-02-28T21:54:52.497+00:00That's an interesting point. I don't know...That's an interesting point. I don't know, but it seems very plausible. Wool wasn't rationed in WW1, but I'm sure it was scarce, partly because so much shipping was sunk, and partly because of the huge demand for wool for uniforms. So knitting in very thick wool would have been very expensive.Barbarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16481362252017232022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2805580631057957340.post-21873295372272991762014-02-26T19:05:59.653+00:002014-02-26T19:05:59.653+00:00Could the advent of the first world war have scupp...Could the advent of the first world war have scuppered chunky wool for a while? Was wool sold by weight? If so would it have made the chunky wool very expensive compared to what you could make out of the same weight of 4ply or amount of time you could spend knitting from the same weight of 4ply?The Foggy Knitterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06052717128048264313noreply@blogger.com