Bluestockings
This beautiful book brings together a celebration of the group of eighteenth-century learned women known as the Bluestockings, with a wide-ranging exploration of sock and stocking knitting.
The book’s first section features different perspectives on the history of socks and stockings, from expert contributors like Susan North (curator of eighteenth-century fashion at the V&A) and Sonja Bargielowska (of John Arbon Textiles). In the second section, essays about creative eighteenth-century women such as Mary Delany and Phillis Wheatley Peters are accompanied by seven contemporary toe-up patterns for socks and stockings.
Among the Bluestocking-inspired designs, you’ll find openwork and texture, stripes, chevrons, stranded colourwork, and a go-to sock and stocking recipe. Setting top tips about knitting toe-up socks alongside an exploration of historic dyestuffs, and bringing groundbreaking women writers together with accessible, wearable design, this lavishly illustrated volume offers an exciting in-the-round combination of material history, contemporary making, and early feminism.
Contributors: Sonja Bargielowska, Kate Davies, Kristina Decker, Elizabeth Eger, Susan North, Nicole Pohl, Isabella Whitworth.
Contains: 8 knitting patterns: 7 blue stockings & 1 hap
Format: softback book; 120 pages; 21cm x 26cm
Published: KDD & Co, 2021
Printed in: UK
ISBN: 978-1-9165-0328-1
This beautiful book brings together a celebration of the group of eighteenth-century learned women known as the Bluestockings, with a wide-ranging exploration of sock and stocking knitting.
The book’s first section features different perspectives on the history of socks and stockings, from expert contributors like Susan North (curator of eighteenth-century fashion at the V&A) and Sonja Bargielowska (of John Arbon Textiles). In the second section, essays about creative eighteenth-century women such as Mary Delany and Phillis Wheatley Peters are accompanied by seven contemporary toe-up patterns for socks and stockings.
Among the Bluestocking-inspired designs, you’ll find openwork and texture, stripes, chevrons, stranded colourwork, and a go-to sock and stocking recipe. Setting top tips about knitting toe-up socks alongside an exploration of historic dyestuffs, and bringing groundbreaking women writers together with accessible, wearable design, this lavishly illustrated volume offers an exciting in-the-round combination of material history, contemporary making, and early feminism.
Contributors: Sonja Bargielowska, Kate Davies, Kristina Decker, Elizabeth Eger, Susan North, Nicole Pohl, Isabella Whitworth.
Contains: 8 knitting patterns: 7 blue stockings & 1 hap
Format: softback book; 120 pages; 21cm x 26cm
Published: KDD & Co, 2021
Printed in: UK
ISBN: 978-1-9165-0328-1
This beautiful book brings together a celebration of the group of eighteenth-century learned women known as the Bluestockings, with a wide-ranging exploration of sock and stocking knitting.
The book’s first section features different perspectives on the history of socks and stockings, from expert contributors like Susan North (curator of eighteenth-century fashion at the V&A) and Sonja Bargielowska (of John Arbon Textiles). In the second section, essays about creative eighteenth-century women such as Mary Delany and Phillis Wheatley Peters are accompanied by seven contemporary toe-up patterns for socks and stockings.
Among the Bluestocking-inspired designs, you’ll find openwork and texture, stripes, chevrons, stranded colourwork, and a go-to sock and stocking recipe. Setting top tips about knitting toe-up socks alongside an exploration of historic dyestuffs, and bringing groundbreaking women writers together with accessible, wearable design, this lavishly illustrated volume offers an exciting in-the-round combination of material history, contemporary making, and early feminism.
Contributors: Sonja Bargielowska, Kate Davies, Kristina Decker, Elizabeth Eger, Susan North, Nicole Pohl, Isabella Whitworth.
Contains: 8 knitting patterns: 7 blue stockings & 1 hap
Format: softback book; 120 pages; 21cm x 26cm
Published: KDD & Co, 2021
Printed in: UK
ISBN: 978-1-9165-0328-1
