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People knitting: a century of photographs

By Barbara , Levine

Book information

Publisher
Princeton Architectural Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9781616895402, 1616895403
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
19 MB (20067220 bytes)
Edition
First edition
Pages
\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
CatalogsExhibitions / General;Knitters (Persons);Knitting;Exhibitions--General;PHOTOGRAPHY--Individual PhotoPhotography;PHOTOGRAPHY / Collections

Description

People Knitting is a charming tribute in vintage photographs and printed ephemera to the ever-popular, often all-consuming, craft of knitting. When women posed with their knitting in the earliest nineteenth-century photographs, it demonstrated their virtue and skill as homemakers. Later, knitting became fashionable among the wealthy as a sign of culture and artistic ability. During the two world wars, images of nurses, soldiers, prisoners, and even knitting clubs composed of very serious small boys'all with heads bent down, intent on knitting items (especially socks) for the troops'abounded. In the 1950s and 1960s, as snapshots became ubiquitous, knitters took on a jauntier air, posing with handiwork held proudly aloft. People Knitting is a quirky and fascinating gift for the knitter in your life.

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