Knitting Now and Then

I recently acquired a new addition to my collection of knitting needle gauges.  An exciting acquisition, as I had never seen one for sale be...

The volunteers working on the Knitting & Crochet Guild Collection have selected 100 objects to show the range of the collection — includ...

I'm told that work is still in progress on the recordings of the talks at the  In the Loop  conference in July, so in the meantime, I wi...

I was browsing some online newspapers today, looking for something else, when I found an account from May 1919 of someone opening a wool sh...

When we were in London a week ago, for the Knitting History Forum, I spent a happy day at the British Library, looking at magazines from 191...

I have been wondering how similar Felted Tweed is to the Teazle Wool specified for the tam pattern I adapted, as I described in my last post...

Over 150 numbers of the  Fancy Needlework Illustrated  magazine were published before the Second World War.  The Knitting & Crochet...

I was going to write a PS to my last post, but then I thought. "Who reads a PS?"  Probably no-one who's already read the origi...

It's been an exciting week at the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection.  I had accepted two donations of publications and they arrive...