I may be about to buy a Victorian sewing machine. Readers who do historical re-enactment may understand the need for authenticity that is driving that purchasing urge. To me however it…
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The wonderful historical drama, Gentleman Jack, is filmed in the part of Yorkshire where I live, featuring lots of places that I know well. It has therefore caught my imagination…
Practical, neatly knitted, and well constructed, I was astonished by these boots when I saw them in the Bankfield museum a couple of weeks ago. I was visiting with my…
On Friday Marie and I again examined the Dales gloves in the Gawthorpe Hall textile collection. This time we learned that the way the floating yarn is trapped in the…
Since my last post, about embroidering roses on a knitted background, I’ve been busy making roses of a different kind. These are knitted roses, to wear as a “buttonhole”, is…
Last week at the monthly meeting of the Huddersfield branch of the Knitting and Crochet Guild we had a ‘trunk show’ of embroidered items from the guild collection. These included…
A couple of months ago I began knitting a pair of stockings that I designed inspired by several historical and cultural stocking trends. My first inspiration was the patterned turnover…
On Saturday I participated in a Solidarity With Ukraine event at the Piece Hall in Halifax. It was a very moving event with many people from Halifax’s Ukrainian community there,…
I’ve been working on a set of knee-high stockings inspired by research Marie and I have done about the stocking tops that Henrietta Ryder (of Richmond in Swaledale, Yorkshire) designed…
Just over a week ago I spent two delightful days examining Yorkshire Dales gloves in two different museums; the Wordsworth Museum in Grasmere, and the Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes…
