Knitting Genealogy // Casual Friday 3-28
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ก.ค. 2024
- In this week's Casual Friday podcast, I explore the genealogy of the modern sweater and recap my journey of knitting my way through the 20th century, decade by decade, one sweater at a time.
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INFO ABOUT THINGS MENTIONED IN THE TIDBITS SECTION:
A Stitch in Time is Amber Butchart's series that reconstructs garments depicted in paintings and other historical artifacts. It can be found on Amazon Prime and Acorn TV. It was a BBC production, so it may be available in the UK.
Textile Tokens at the Foundling Museum's Threads of Feeling exhibit:
foundlingmuseum.org.uk/events...
Covers from vintage Stitchcraft magazines can be found here:
tinyurl.com/y5bgyply
LINKS TO MY RAVELRY PROJECT PAGES OF ALL MY VINTAGE KNITS ARE HERE:
www.ravelry.com/projects/Rox?...
The individual project pages will have links to the pattern pages.
Introduction: 0:00
Tidbits: 0:29
Knitting Genealogy: 10:21
Columbia Sweater (1904): 35:11
A Serviceable Sweater (1918): 39:15
Indian Slip-On 13A (1922): 42:24
A Popular Model (1938): 45:39
If you have questions about this video, or suggestions for future videos, please let me know down in the comments or on social media.
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Intensely Interesting! An absolute Thrill Ride through the Decades of FASHION!!!! Actual Garments are shown!!!!
Just watched the Arnolfini episode of A Stitch in time; the series is on TH-cam. Thanks for turning me on to this series. As a professional dressmaker for 40 years, now a professional quilter, I really identified with the tools and techniques.
Wonderful! It's so interesting, isn't it? The history and the techniques and the reverse engineering.
Thanks so much for this video! My wish is that you write a book about this experience when you consider your knitting part of this project done. What a treasure that would be for us all.
I should keep a tally of all the people who have suggested this. :-) It's an interesting idea!
I loved this episode! I love the history- what a lot of work you did thank you for sharing your knowledge.
I found episodes of “A Stitch in Time” right here on TH-cam!!
Excellent catch! Thanks for sharing, I’m really enjoying watching it!🥰
Thanks for pointing me to that forensic clothing series! It was interesting to watch! While I have no interest in doing that type of sewing myself, it was so cool to see them do it.
Glad you enjoyed!
This is the most fascinating podcast I've ever seen! I look forward to going back to your earlier podcasts, and to continue following you!
Yay, thank you!
Fascinating presentation. Looking forward to the rest of the twentieth century.
In the book, The Count of Monte Cristo, there is a character taken to a nunnery and was left a “textile token” of his father!
What a fascinating episode! Thank you so much for sharing all that information.
Glad you enjoyed it!
So glad you liked A Stitch in Time!
It's so good!
Thanks so much for sharing A Stitch in Time. It’s so much fun!!🥰
Thank you so much for the recap of your project. I really found it fascinating to follow your thought process throughout the project, from pattern selection through all the decision making, to figuring out the vague or missing instructions and piecing individual elements together. I can see why all this is of such interest to you. I was glued to the whole thing - I learn so very much from you. I miss my own knitting group & so thank you very much.
It was fun to the the sweaters and getting a description of them. I’m a fairly new subscriber since this spring so I have just watched back a few episodes yet. It is always a delight to see that a new episode is added.
Thanks for subbing!
Thank you for telling us about Stitch in Time. Watched the first episode last night. Very interesting. Can't wait to finish watching the series.
You are so welcome!
Taking time to go look at your Ravelry projects ... love that sweater. You are, as usual, a powerhouse of information. Thank you Rox.
You are so welcome!
Thank you for getting me up to date. I had no idea of why you were knitting these sweaters. It looks fascinating. I could not do it even though I have knitted for years and taught for many of those. I have a book called Dainty. Work for Pleasure and Profit. It is of from the 1890’s I think. First 24 pages are missing. It has several knitted garments with pretty good instructions. A baby jacket, knitted lace, a beautiful infant bootie, a petticoat, a “countermand” a slip and even a vest. It was in my Grandmothers things that I treasure. I keep it tied with ribbon and in a cabinet for future Dainty work ladies. I enjoy your show very much. There are lots of lost needle works the book as well. I wonder if the art can revive. It is truly beautiful work. Thanks for reading such a long comment. Phyllis Wessen, NC
Ouu! Fascinating news about Foundling Museum, fabric collection. It’s cool how your curiosity in knitting through the ages brings you to in a way to understand past knitters in their approaches to form, function and finally design through their patterns. Thanks for sharing.
I love the hand gestures when you were talking about the King!
Thank you for the tip to watch A Stitch In Time and the link to the museum. It was also great to see the vintage sweaters again. My favorites were the Shawl Collar and the 30’s yoke sweater.
As a new viewer thank you for explaining your overall project. How fascinating! I am going to look into A Stitch In Time - I think it is right up my alley.
Wow, really noticed improved video quality. Color is better and edges are so sharp and clear. Love the new equipment.
really intresting project. Great challenge to understand how they knit in the past decades
Looking forward to the 60 s!
Although I have watched your channel from the beginning and watched the project evolve, I still enjoyed this recap. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I've watched you for a little while & even though you mentioned the other sweaters before, I don't think you showed the finished products all together before. I found the Victorian influenced sweater fascinating in how they made the fabric drape & wondered how long it took to knit all that extra material!! If people didn't know better, they'd think you're a wizard to be able to figure out all those things. Maybe there's a book in all this?
I greatly enjoyed learning about this so thanks for taking us on this journey thru this project. To be honest, I've been watching you for awhile and I didn't know about this project. 😊
Glad you enjoyed it! It honestly never occurred to me to reiterate the larger project, until I was preparing to tell people about it who I knew wouldn't know!
Like I said, I'm glad you did ☺ . Stay safe, be well, and have a great weekend!
I wish I had realized you don’t know everything about anything to do with fabric. I found “A Stitch in Time” a while back. It never occurred to me that you might not know about this. I admire the way your mind works.
FYI You can find the Stirtch in Time knitting program on TH-cam now
i'd love to see princess diana's black sheep pattern for the 80s! it's on my list to cast on.
Hi I am in Canada and on Amazon prime second series is on there 🤗
You're the second person to say that there is a second series, but I can't find any mention of it anywhere on the internet!
I have a 'collection" of vintage Dutch hand-craft magazines (Maandblad voor handwerken / Ariadne). They are from my birth year 1956 until about 1962. They probably were of my grandmother (father's mother), who knitted a lot of garments for her grandchildren. If you're interested in a 1950s- 1960s knitting pattern, I could make a photo of the page (and translate the pattern from Dutch into English).
Nice
I imagine you’ve already been asked about writing a book about your history knitting journey. With a big disclaimer “No Patterns,” of course.
Very interesting, thank you.
You look gorgeous. Thank you very much for your videos.
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Yeey for the new computer!
If you are interested in what a women in the early 1900s would wear to achieve the "pigeon breasted" look, check out Bernadette Banner's TH-cam video "Achieving that Classic Edwardian Shape: Reconstructing a 1902 Bust Bodice."
On the mention of genealogy intersecting with historical knitting, I have come across a photo of my great-great-grandmother wearing a knitted cardigan. Would there be resources to help reverse engineer a sweater from a historic photograph?
I would post your photo and question to the All Things Vintage group on Ravelry to see if anyone recognizes the cardigan. It's possible that there might be a pattern out there already. Otherwise, we could help analyze details of the cardigan to give you ideas for how to approach the construction and the finishing details. Otherwise, the resources are just general knowledge of sweater construction, and how something would have likely been knit at the time period in question.
You most likely are aware of this already, but the Internet Archive has digitized many magazines from long ago, and you can find 1940's era women's magazines, some of which have knitting patterns, such as this: archive.org/details/The_Australian_Womens_Weekly_27_03_1943/page/n29/mode/2up Really fun to read through!
I've been knee-deep into the 19th century knitting books this week on archive.org! :-)
They have a second season on Prime 😃
Hmmm...I didn't see that, and can't find it. IMDB says there is only one season of 6 episodes. Could you be thinking of a different series? If so, what is it? I would probably be very interested!
With the small diamond stitch pattern they used the term "narrow". Was that a common term? Is that k2tog or SSK or something else?
Narrow = "decrease." They used k2tog, even in situations where we would mirror decreases today. Very occasionally a pattern would specify a sl1-k1-psso (same result as ssk, but ssk wasn't invented until the 1970s, by Barbara Walker).
The 1900's sweater is one I would wear if I were pregnant. Love it despite it being out of fashion unless it is for pregnant women.
Hello Roxanne, do you think, being a writer, you would ever take all this information you have gathered and learned and write a book about your journey with these sweaters?
I have considered it. :-)
@@RoxanneRichardson Great!