Highly recommend the 45min documentary, “Spies, Socks, and Soldiers: A Fascinating History of Wartime Knitting” by Shannon Makes, here on YT. It was the result of her deep dive into the history of a vintage WWII sweater vest pattern, but she found amazing details and WONDERFUL vintage footage clips from the British home front on the knitting effort, and even what other animal fibers could be called into service when wool was in short supply. Highly, highly recommend! Btw, she’s a dress history enthusiast by day and a professional circus performer by night!
Canadian here. Mary Galloway's documentary "The Cowichan Sweater: Our Knitted Legacy" is wonderful. It's part of her own legacy, which makes the film quite endearing. Not only a historical look at the art, it also takes you down the road of how the very fibers are created and the challenges producing those sweaters today. Lucky enough to have seen it in its entirety.
Hi Taylor, when we lived on Vancouver Is. I bought a Cowichan Blue sweater, and we have my husband's parents two traditional sweaters, also a Cowichan knitted hat. Thank you so much for including Cowichan knits in your video. Their sweaters are very dense, heavy, and loved by all who buy them.
A few years ago the Hibulb Cultural Center in Tulalip, Washington had a great exhibit on Coast Salish Knitting. The best thing about this center is that the exhibit integrates kid-friendly and more adult-centered information so it’s really hands on and tactile. For example, you could play a video game where you had to fill a basket with gathered wool, and you could try out carding wool. They also had a blanket remnant that was made with wooly dog hair! Wooly dogs are extinct now 😢.
I recently saw Rajiv’s video before this one, it was an enjoyable and informative video. For those that enjoy fiber art history, A fiber art (history) channel I really enjoy is Kristine Vike. Her video on textiles that can’t be reproduced by machine is super interesting!
I have now gone down the Rajiv rabbit hole. What a beautiful, thoughtful artist. Thank you for this video. I will be watching more of your recommendations. This was a treat.
The algorithm is a crazy thing because since last week when I found your channel and started watching more of it, half of these videos popped up on my feed. Thanks for feeding my algorithm!
Wow! Just amazing your subject is!!! I live in Canada... I'm half and half canadian /mexican. Living in eastern Canada... I live in a French speaking province and I did not hear about the Cowichan before, but more of all the Eastern Canadian tribes! This style is so similar to Mexican knitted sweaters my mother use to buy for us when we were young! We used to go to Mexico visit our family and we go to "artesanias" everytime we could to see all those native krafts!!! My mother was a potter and she loved all kind of arts. I always believed that all the natives living in America use to share a lot more than we think! There is too much similarity in the arts and krafts... just as knitting, leather work and beaded garment... it is not a coincidence by any mean, they must have traveled to share their knowledge all over America way before European people came to their territory. Amazing! Thank you
The one thing I remember when I was learning about circular knitting and traditional sweaters was slightly humorous, although the context was not. There is a tradition (not sure if it is truth or legend) that both the Aran sweater and the Scottish gansey were knitted to keep their fisherman warm. They were knitted so the wearer could be identified. That is the grim part of this legend. The humor came from the comparison of the two styles. The Ganseys were knitted so that no design aspect of the sweater was covered up by the fisherman's oilskin pants, and to save yarn. The Aran sweaters were knitted without too much worry over those factors. I was learning all of this about 30 years ago, and my details may not be totally accurate. Not sure where I learned all of this, but I suspect Elizabeth Zimmermann may have been my source. She was a delightful knitter.
Hi Tayler. Aussie knitter here. One of the sports we play here is Australian Rules Football and Fun Fact the shirts the players wear are called Guernseys (we pronounce it as GURnsey as in gur rhymes with purr) because back in the day (1870s??) the shirts were made of WOOL!! 😊Thx for this great little collection of vids. PS: I am also fangirling on Rajiv. 😂
Thanks Taylor for taking a lot of time to assemble all those stellar videos and shared them on your site. It makes the craft of knitting more valuable to me to know the history and how knitting evolved throughout history.
Taylor, there is a whole series of podcasts about the Shetland Islands and knitting, produced by Shetland Wool Week, for several years. You will meet individual knitters and designers, and learn how they learned to knit, in school, and without patterns. There are also videos from. The yarn producer Jamieson and Smith. There are videos on Shetland Lace. There many, many rabbit holes to explore.
Yes! The Shetland Amenity Trust channel has SUCH great content. I’m telling you, I could make two more videos like this with all this good fiber-y content. ❤️
Roxanne Richardson, here on TH-cam, has a segment each week where she highlights knitting content like these videos, as well as articles, museum shows, etc… I’ve seen one or two of these videos through Roxanne’s channel,
I haven't finished watching, and I had to stop and comment because Rajiv and the Gansey/Guernsey...first, I had never heard of him until very recently when the very video you mention popped up in my TH-cam (I love it when the algorithm gets it right!), and of course I watched it and loved it. But what drew my attention particularly was that on a recent trip to Australia, I sat next to a n older couple from guess where...Guernsey! They guessed I wouldn't know where that was, and I sheepishly said, ummm...I'm a knitter, I know Guernsey...and it turns out he's been knitting his whole life. Anyway, small world and all that...now back to the rest of your video!
Back in the dark ages (before there was TH-cam, before podcasting before moveable type)my daughter, a friend and I had a weekly program on knitting on our local university band. No video so we used lots of spoken content like this. (It was also a time before cultural appropriation was acknowledged and I'm ashamed to say I knit many a "Cowichan" sweater - Canadian here.) This programme really struck a chord with me on may levels. Recommending "Women's Work: the first 20,000 Years" if you're interested in diving deeper. Thank you for interesting, informative and well crafted shows all 'round. I love it.
Thank you for sharing these interesting videos. I watched them all. It's fun to here what the knitting "fringe" community has to teach us about our craft. I think about those ancient knitters and how they worked out problems with their knitting that we benefit from today. Did you see the short rows on the knitted hats in the last video! Not a single hole. Genius!
Loved the blooper at the end! I'm following you because of your knitting content, but also to improve my English (I'm a Dutchie in Germany). Your vocabulary and creativity is inspiring! Even more so when you show your struggles as a native speaker :)
Wow, I'm floored at how many of you have stuck around for the blooper! That's awesome! And I'm honored that you're finding my videos to be helpful as you navigate this language. It can be tricky for even the most...proficient. lol! ❤️
For a longer bite about the history of Aran sweaters I recommend Mina Le's video on them from a few months ago (: She's more talking-head style but I appreciate her dedication to research and her diligent sourcing, and her video has a little more focus on the sweater's contemporary history and impact. She does a lot more fashion/makeup historical deep-dives, but I think the Aran one might be the only knitting specific content so far (:
Fantastic video. I live in Canada and watched the Cowichan sweater documentary on CBC GEM. It was great! It got me thinking that I might want to knit sweaters from across Canada... 😅 (I have not knit one sweater in my life yet 😂) Anyway TH-cam suggested a few more rabbit holes since then. I watched the Icelandic Sweater Documentary. And Arne and Carlos did an interview with a woman who curates a local sweater museum and is a well known historical sweater maker. Watching these documentaries, I learned that every stich had a meaning. Nothing was arbitrary. I have become a little more mindful. 😊
I’ve been reading the book that the tv series Silo is based on. It’s a sci-fi novel called Wool and there’s a whole chapter on knitting: finding gauge, casting on and knitting… it’s an awesome book made even more amazing by this inclusion! 😂
I was born in the Cowichan valley, so these sweaters have been part of my world since birth. I have knit a few myself. The doc is well worth watching 😍😍
I just discovered Rajiv and the Guernsey video this weekend. I love him. Great videos. I saw a documentary on knitting in Iceland recently. It was so interesting.
I'm so excited to see the Cowichan Sweater!! There was another video that I can't find that talks about it, had to watch it many times for my degree! I had the chance to work with the ladies who make them still and learn how to card wool and I think it's what really inspired me to get into that aspect of fiber arts!!
Sylvia Olsen’s book, Working With Wool: A Coast Salish Legacy And The Cowichan Sweater is a fascinating deep dive into this iconic knitting tradition. It is a very well written book, with an insider’s perspective, and full of really interesting revelations.
Thank you so much for putting up this video. I am very interested in all fiber arts and especially knitting. Surprisingly, I had just watched Rajiv's video yesterday. Now, thanks to you, I have several more interesting videos to watch. Keep doing what you do, you do it well!
Oh my gosh, Tayler - I just watched Rajiv 2 nights ago before you mentioning him and I absolutely loved it.! He is fantastic and I learned a lot about ganseys.😊
I watched Rajiv’s video a couple of days ago, and it definitely made me want to knit a gansey! Thanks for the other suggestions which are new to me. 👍🏴
Thank you. This is so my jam. For me, knitting is greatly enhanced by understanding the history of the craft and especially the pattern traditions of various cultures. Also important is understanding the yarn passing through your fingers, differences between breeds,, how and by whom it was it gathered, spun, dyed. I will look at each and every one of these.
Your channel is so incredibly informative! I'm relatively new to knitting (crocheting since late 1970's) and I never knew so much about making sweaters! I thought people just start making it up as they go. 🤦 Wow! Thank you so much! I don't really have knitter's in my community so you help me so much! Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Your videos are so unique and informative…I learned so much in this one video! Think I might try a Gansey for my son now that I know the history. Thank you!❤
Tayler this was great. I love that you found some of these little bits of history of yarn and knitting. I hope you keep sharing this type of content. What a treat!
Hi Taylor, this was absolutely amazing. I love traditional podcast but I thoroughly enjoy the history of fiber and knitting. Thank-you. I also love your Ravelry Roulette. So much fun. I saw your granny square coaster on you table. It inspired me to knit some but I added a shelf liner on the bottom to keep it from slipping.
So funny - I just watched Rajiv’s video today - I guess TH-cam knew I may be interested. I didn’t know who he was or what his background was - and I felt like maybe it was a “final project” for a university class or something? I thought it was a very creative presentation in that context. I was surprised to hear him say that he couldn’t knit a guernsey and that he paid for his to be knit. This made me look a little but more into him and I see he is a knitter…and he obviously is a spinner - so hopefully he will finish a guernsey!!
I do enjoy your pointers to knitting patterns but pointers to other videos that might be of interest is fascinating. I’ve already watched the Rajiv video and both he and the ganseys are new to me. Wonderful idea!
This is just the palette cleanser I need, as I was burning out on podcasts. If I see one more emotional support chicken, I'm going to lose my shitsky! (But yes, they're adorbs, and I've knit one lol) Thank u for coming up with this list-I'm out to download now. I want to say I've seen the cowichan doc,I think maybe it was linked through an episode of fleece and harmony?
Great content! Just what I was looking for and only one of the videos was one I had seen before (Faire Isle Documentary). Please make a video like this again next year!
Thank you Tayler, this is very inspiring ! I love your videos ! I have a book recommandation if you wish to explore the different knitting traditions and knitting techniques and be able to desing your own sweater accordingly. This is the "Knitting in the Old Way" by Priscilla Gibson -Roberts and Deborah Robson. I got the 2004 edition, it's a big book. It's fascinating, no photos at all, only black and white illustrations, it's beautiful. It covers many knitting traditions country by country, (including south america, north america, europe) and it provides all the techniques, constructions, design elements you need to build your sweater. Catherine (french viewer)😊
Thank you for passing on this wonderful content. I watched a short doco on Icelandic knitters, it's in German as well as Icelandic with English subtitles, that was a joy to watch.
I think I know the one you're talking about, I really wanted to watch it and I started it and then had to walk away from it. Now I'm trying to find it again and I can't seem to find it anywhere. Would you have the link to it or the channel name?
GM Taylor 😊 As always love to see you in the morning !! It’s so funny I watched Rajiv podcast on his ganseys sweaters Very passionate about them and the history Thank you for the bit of history you shared today !! 🥰😊Taylor
Thank you for sharing these. Two channels that I love that are not knitting-related are Reflections of Life and Indoor Kat. Cecilia Blomdahl is also fantastic. Thank you again for sharing these channels.
What a fun topic for a video! All of these look interesting and I want to see them all, but my history nerd side is especially excited for the one about knitting in the ancient world 😄
I've seen those fiber videos from Insider a long while ago & they were interesting while educational, especially since most of us don't know what goes into processing fiber.
I absolutely love your channel your content is always so fresh and new - I am a new knitter and do watch a lot of tutorials, but I watch your channel because it is truly inspiring and I enjoyed the content you never get old LOL - thank you for all the time you put into these videos - I am Canadian and love that you mentioned a few videos/documentaries from our beautiful country.
Thank you so much for your kind words and support! I'm thrilled to hear that you find my content inspiring and enjoyable. And it was a pleasure to highlight Canadian makers. ❤️
Thanks for sharing this video! I am from canada and never have heard of the Cowichan Sweater until now- I will definitely be looking into that further! They look absolutely beautiful.
Thank you for sharing!! If you want something that’s not knitting related but still really interesting and textile related check out Bernadette Banner’s channel, she focuses on historical dress, pattern making, sewing and tailoring techniques done by hand or with her non-electric vintage pedal sewing machine and only uses non-synthetic all natural fabrics and threads. She also has a good sense of humor and a guinea pig. Really interesting content!
I previously stumbled across a couple of the videos you mentioned, the nalbinding and knitting history videos specifically, and was so glad I took the time to watch them. Great information and historical context that expanded my knowledge. I appreciate the recommendations for the other videos you mentioned and will definitely give them a watch. Thanks for sharing these gems.
Thank you I did have the Gansey You Tube video pop and throughly enjoyed it. This reminded me that many, many years ago I did knit one in pure wool but it was so itchy 😢
Thanks for sharing this, I had already seen a few of these but will enjoy the others. I have also liked watching some historical documentary snipets (like the 80s) about Shetland lace knitting, the speed cottage style knitting, and more recently Icelandic pullover knitting, traditional Alaskan qiviut knitting, etc. Certainly varying in quality of filmmaking but all informative.
Thank you! This is SO my thing! I've seen a couple of the historical vids you mentioned, and there are a couple of podcasters who have delved into historically accurate knitting. When you get a chance, though, look up Korsnäs sweaters. So amazing and beautiful, with a unique knitting style. They're next on my "learn" list. There is a pattern on rav with a link to a video, but they're on YT, too.
Highly recommend the 45min documentary, “Spies, Socks, and Soldiers: A Fascinating History of Wartime Knitting” by Shannon Makes, here on YT. It was the result of her deep dive into the history of a vintage WWII sweater vest pattern, but she found amazing details and WONDERFUL vintage footage clips from the British home front on the knitting effort, and even what other animal fibers could be called into service when wool was in short supply. Highly, highly recommend! Btw, she’s a dress history enthusiast by day and a professional circus performer by night!
Rajiv is my hero. I've started learning calligraphy because of him, also making real chapatis or rotis and trying out watercolours. He is amazing!
Canadian here. Mary Galloway's documentary "The Cowichan Sweater: Our Knitted Legacy" is wonderful. It's part of her own legacy, which makes the film quite endearing. Not only a historical look at the art, it also takes you down the road of how the very fibers are created and the challenges producing those sweaters today. Lucky enough to have seen it in its entirety.
Hi Taylor, when we lived on Vancouver Is. I bought a Cowichan Blue sweater, and we have my husband's parents two traditional sweaters, also a Cowichan knitted hat. Thank you so much for including Cowichan knits in your video. Their sweaters are very dense, heavy, and loved by all who buy them.
A few years ago the Hibulb Cultural Center in Tulalip, Washington had a great exhibit on Coast Salish Knitting. The best thing about this center is that the exhibit integrates kid-friendly and more adult-centered information so it’s really hands on and tactile. For example, you could play a video game where you had to fill a basket with gathered wool, and you could try out carding wool. They also had a blanket remnant that was made with wooly dog hair! Wooly dogs are extinct now 😢.
I recently saw Rajiv’s video before this one, it was an enjoyable and informative video. For those that enjoy fiber art history, A fiber art (history) channel I really enjoy is Kristine Vike. Her video on textiles that can’t be reproduced by machine is super interesting!
I have now gone down the Rajiv rabbit hole. What a beautiful, thoughtful artist. Thank you for this video. I will be watching more of your recommendations. This was a treat.
Geansaí (pronounced as Gansey) is the Irish word for jumper or sweater so that could be what he is talking about in the Working Class Sweater video
The algorithm is a crazy thing because since last week when I found your channel and started watching more of it, half of these videos popped up on my feed. Thanks for feeding my algorithm!
Wow! Just amazing your subject is!!! I live in Canada... I'm half and half canadian /mexican. Living in eastern Canada... I live in a French speaking province and I did not hear about the Cowichan before, but more of all the Eastern Canadian tribes! This style is so similar to Mexican knitted sweaters my mother use to buy for us when we were young! We used to go to Mexico visit our family and we go to "artesanias" everytime we could to see all those native krafts!!! My mother was a potter and she loved all kind of arts. I always believed that all the natives living in America use to share a lot more than we think! There is too much similarity in the arts and krafts... just as knitting, leather work and beaded garment... it is not a coincidence by any mean, they must have traveled to share their knowledge all over America way before European people came to their territory. Amazing! Thank you
The one thing I remember when I was learning about circular knitting and traditional sweaters was slightly humorous, although the context was not. There is a tradition (not sure if it is truth or legend) that both the Aran sweater and the Scottish gansey were knitted to keep their fisherman warm. They were knitted so the wearer could be identified. That is the grim part of this legend. The humor came from the comparison of the two styles. The Ganseys were knitted so that no design aspect of the sweater was covered up by the fisherman's oilskin pants, and to save yarn. The Aran sweaters were knitted without too much worry over those factors. I was learning all of this about 30 years ago, and my details may not be totally accurate. Not sure where I learned all of this, but I suspect Elizabeth Zimmermann may have been my source. She was a delightful knitter.
Tayler, I'm rather at a loss for words, but just... Thank You for this eye-opening presentation. You have awesome content and I am grateful for you!
Ah, this means a lot Kath. It’s my pleasure. Thank you for watching. ❤️❤️
I think your vlog just came up because I just finished watching Rajiv’s vlog about Gansey knit sweaters. It was very interesting and so informative.
Hi Tayler. Aussie knitter here. One of the sports we play here is Australian Rules Football and Fun Fact the shirts the players wear are called Guernseys (we pronounce it as GURnsey as in gur rhymes with purr) because back in the day (1870s??) the shirts were made of WOOL!! 😊Thx for this great little collection of vids. PS: I am also fangirling on Rajiv. 😂
Thanks Taylor for taking a lot of time to assemble all those stellar videos and shared them on your site. It makes the craft of knitting more valuable to me to know the history and how knitting evolved throughout history.
Taylor, there is a whole series of podcasts about the Shetland Islands and knitting, produced by Shetland Wool Week, for several years. You will meet individual knitters and designers, and learn how they learned to knit, in school, and without patterns. There are also videos from. The yarn producer Jamieson and Smith. There are videos on Shetland Lace. There many, many rabbit holes to explore.
Yes! The Shetland Amenity Trust channel has SUCH great content. I’m telling you, I could make two more videos like this with all this good fiber-y content. ❤️
Roxanne Richardson, here on TH-cam, has a segment each week where she highlights knitting content like these videos, as well as articles, museum shows, etc… I’ve seen one or two of these videos through Roxanne’s channel,
i am subscribed to rajiv. he does all kinds of videos diy's ,decorating, restoring furniture. he is so talented.
Rajiv! I love his videos. I recommend the one where he goes thrifting in Chicago.
Me Too!!!!!
Omg I LOVE his antiquing videos! ❤
I haven't finished watching, and I had to stop and comment because Rajiv and the Gansey/Guernsey...first, I had never heard of him until very recently when the very video you mention popped up in my TH-cam (I love it when the algorithm gets it right!), and of course I watched it and loved it. But what drew my attention particularly was that on a recent trip to Australia, I sat next to a n older couple from guess where...Guernsey! They guessed I wouldn't know where that was, and I sheepishly said, ummm...I'm a knitter, I know Guernsey...and it turns out he's been knitting his whole life. Anyway, small world and all that...now back to the rest of your video!
Watching the blooper made me strongly remember myself before school presentations lol
I just love that you stuck around for that. That means a lot. Thank you. 🙏 ❤️
Back in the dark ages (before there was TH-cam, before podcasting before moveable type)my daughter, a friend and I had a weekly program on knitting on our local university band. No video so we used lots of spoken content like this. (It was also a time before cultural appropriation was acknowledged and I'm ashamed to say I knit many a "Cowichan" sweater - Canadian here.) This programme really struck a chord with me on may levels. Recommending "Women's Work: the first 20,000 Years" if you're interested in diving deeper.
Thank you for interesting, informative and well crafted shows all 'round. I love it.
Thank you for sharing these interesting videos. I watched them all. It's fun to here what the knitting "fringe" community has to teach us about our craft. I think about those ancient knitters and how they worked out problems with their knitting that we benefit from today. Did you see the short rows on the knitted hats in the last video! Not a single hole. Genius!
Loved the blooper at the end! I'm following you because of your knitting content, but also to improve my English (I'm a Dutchie in Germany). Your vocabulary and creativity is inspiring! Even more so when you show your struggles as a native speaker :)
Wow, I'm floored at how many of you have stuck around for the blooper! That's awesome! And I'm honored that you're finding my videos to be helpful as you navigate this language. It can be tricky for even the most...proficient. lol! ❤️
I had no idea Rajiv was in mean girls! Hahaha that’s hilarious. His content is so relaxing I love it
thanks so much for introducing us to Rajiv.
I started watching his videos.
So soothing and calming and wonderful !
For a longer bite about the history of Aran sweaters I recommend Mina Le's video on them from a few months ago (: She's more talking-head style but I appreciate her dedication to research and her diligent sourcing, and her video has a little more focus on the sweater's contemporary history and impact. She does a lot more fashion/makeup historical deep-dives, but I think the Aran one might be the only knitting specific content so far (:
This is *exactly* the kind of knitting content I’ve been wanting recently, thank you SO much for this video!
Fantastic video. I live in Canada and watched the Cowichan sweater documentary on CBC GEM. It was great! It got me thinking that I might want to knit sweaters from across Canada... 😅 (I have not knit one sweater in my life yet 😂) Anyway TH-cam suggested a few more rabbit holes since then. I watched the Icelandic Sweater Documentary. And Arne and Carlos did an interview with a woman who curates a local sweater museum and is a well known historical sweater maker. Watching these documentaries, I learned that every stich had a meaning. Nothing was arbitrary. I have become a little more mindful. 😊
I’ve been reading the book that the tv series Silo is based on. It’s a sci-fi novel called Wool and there’s a whole chapter on knitting: finding gauge, casting on and knitting… it’s an awesome book made even more amazing by this inclusion! 😂
I have been watching Rajiv for a while. I am enamored.
I was born in the Cowichan valley, so these sweaters have been part of my world since birth. I have knit a few myself. The doc is well worth watching 😍😍
I love Dr. Smiti! She has an excellent book channel as well. All my favorite things are colliding!
I just wanna say….
I appreciate your shirt, girl. 🥰
Most of my knitting time I spend watching knitting related YT content, and these are all going into my queue. Thanks!
Omg- adding all these to my queue. Love all the history here! You just curated my Watch Later list for when baby naps and mama knits. Thank you 😊
I love this. I so remember those watch later lists. Thank you for watching Teresa! Enjoy! ☺️
I love to see your passion for knitting meeting your soul as an educator. Thanks for the very informative video
I remember being so impressed the first time I watched Rajiv, it was a tour of his apartment. Renaissance man is correct.
I’ve run across a few of these videos myself. Thank you for adding to my listening and viewing pleasure 🧶🧶
My pleasure! So glad you enjoyed this. And I'm happy that so many folks here also watch Rajiv. He's such an inspiration.
I just discovered Rajiv and the Guernsey video this weekend. I love him. Great videos. I saw a documentary on knitting in Iceland recently. It was so interesting.
Can't wait to have some 'bites of time' to look at ALL of these. Grateful for your mining of this history.
I appreciate how much work goes into these videos, Tayler! ❤❤❤
Thank you so much Star!
I'm so excited to see the Cowichan Sweater!! There was another video that I can't find that talks about it, had to watch it many times for my degree! I had the chance to work with the ladies who make them still and learn how to card wool and I think it's what really inspired me to get into that aspect of fiber arts!!
I took a class at Maryland Sheep and Wool on how to make a Cowichan Sweater..
Fun class!
Sylvia Olsen’s book, Working With Wool: A Coast Salish Legacy And The Cowichan Sweater is a fascinating deep dive into this iconic knitting tradition. It is a very well written book, with an insider’s perspective, and full of really interesting revelations.
Oooo thank you for this recommendation! I'll check it out for sure. ❤️
Thank you so much for putting up this video. I am very interested in all fiber arts and especially knitting. Surprisingly, I had just watched Rajiv's video yesterday. Now, thanks to you, I have several more interesting videos to watch. Keep doing what you do, you do it well!
Off to watch all of these! Thanks so much for putting the list together.
Oh my gosh, Tayler - I just watched Rajiv 2 nights ago before you mentioning him and I absolutely loved it.! He is fantastic and I learned a lot about ganseys.😊
I watched Rajiv’s video a couple of days ago, and it definitely made me want to knit a gansey! Thanks for the other suggestions which are new to me. 👍🏴
I've just watched all of the videos you recommended, and have now gone down my own rabbit hole. Thanks.
Thanks for taking me down your rabbit hole. I love documentaries, expecially ones that I can relate to personally.
Thank you. This is so my jam. For me, knitting is greatly enhanced by understanding the history of the craft and especially the pattern traditions of various cultures. Also important is understanding the yarn passing through your fingers, differences between breeds,, how and by whom it was it gathered, spun, dyed. I will look at each and every one of these.
Your channel is so incredibly informative! I'm relatively new to knitting (crocheting since late 1970's) and I never knew so much about making sweaters! I thought people just start making it up as they go. 🤦 Wow! Thank you so much! I don't really have knitter's in my community so you help me so much! Thank you, thank you, thank you.
The pleasure is mine Kelly. Thank you so much. ❤️
love this video…I am running out of things to watch and love vids like these
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I love this video and look forward to watching the videos you have shared with us!
Your videos are so unique and informative…I learned so much in this one video! Think I might try a Gansey for my son now that I know the history. Thank you!❤
This means so much to me Janice! Thank you. ❤️
Thank you for all your hard work in collecting these videos. I very much enjoy learning about the history of the fiber arts.
You have the best ideas and content. Really looking forward to watching all of the videos and to learning more about knitting. Thank you.
Tayler this was great. I love that you found some of these little bits of history of yarn and knitting. I hope you keep sharing this type of content. What a treat!
Hi Taylor, this was absolutely amazing. I love traditional podcast but I thoroughly enjoy the history of fiber and knitting. Thank-you. I also love your Ravelry Roulette. So much fun. I saw your granny square coaster on you table. It inspired me to knit some but I added a shelf liner on the bottom to keep it from slipping.
Loved this topic and am looking forward to watching these.
So funny - I just watched Rajiv’s video today - I guess TH-cam knew I may be interested. I didn’t know who he was or what his background was - and I felt like maybe it was a “final project” for a university class or something? I thought it was a very creative presentation in that context. I was surprised to hear him say that he couldn’t knit a guernsey and that he paid for his to be knit. This made me look a little but more into him and I see he is a knitter…and he obviously is a spinner - so hopefully he will finish a guernsey!!
I do enjoy your pointers to knitting patterns but pointers to other videos that might be of interest is fascinating. I’ve already watched the Rajiv video and both he and the ganseys are new to me. Wonderful idea!
Rajiv is the best. I wish I had an ounce of his talent. There’s always something to learn. I love his antiquing ones.
This is so cool, Taylor. Thank you for sharing all these creators with us!
This is just the palette cleanser I need, as I was burning out on podcasts. If I see one more emotional support chicken, I'm going to lose my shitsky! (But yes, they're adorbs, and I've knit one lol)
Thank u for coming up with this list-I'm out to download now.
I want to say I've seen the cowichan doc,I think maybe it was linked through an episode of fleece and harmony?
I'm glad this served as a bit of a break from the usual. And I know...we're losing it with these support chickens. 😂
What a fantastic episode/video! Thank you! So much content to dive in and get educated about. Very exciting!
Great content! Just what I was looking for and only one of the videos was one I had seen before (Faire Isle Documentary). Please make a video like this again next year!
Yes! Thank you for this list - videos I didn’t know existed, but can’t wait to watch! Thank you, Tayler!
What a great podcast! Thanks for the inspiration.
This is great! Thank you. Such a unique content idea.
This was really fun and will check out some of the videos.
Catching up on some WNH pods and wow. This was fascinating. I’m so excited to plop down, pull out some knitting, and watch these. Thanks, Tayler!
Thank you Tayler, this is very inspiring ! I love your videos ! I have a book recommandation if you wish to explore the different knitting traditions and knitting techniques and be able to desing your own sweater accordingly. This is the "Knitting in the Old Way" by Priscilla Gibson -Roberts and Deborah Robson. I got the 2004 edition, it's a big book. It's fascinating, no photos at all, only black and white illustrations, it's beautiful. It covers many knitting traditions country by country, (including south america, north america, europe) and it provides all the techniques, constructions, design elements you need to build your sweater.
Catherine (french viewer)😊
Thank you for passing on this wonderful content. I watched a short doco on Icelandic knitters, it's in German as well as Icelandic with English subtitles, that was a joy to watch.
I think I know the one you're talking about, I really wanted to watch it and I started it and then had to walk away from it. Now I'm trying to find it again and I can't seem to find it anywhere. Would you have the link to it or the channel name?
GM Taylor 😊
As always love to see you in the morning !!
It’s so funny I watched Rajiv podcast on his ganseys sweaters
Very passionate about them and the history
Thank you for the bit of history you shared today !!
🥰😊Taylor
Good morning Debbie! So glad you enjoyed this. Have you watched Rajiv's antiquing videos? They're the BEST!
Thank you for sharing these. Two channels that I love that are not knitting-related are Reflections of Life and Indoor Kat. Cecilia Blomdahl is also fantastic. Thank you again for sharing these channels.
Oh my so much fun and unexpected video LOVE LOVE LOVE ❤
Taylor, thank you SO MUCH for these great suggestions, loved all of them!
Great episode- as per usu. will def. watch! Great video diving 🎉
Loved this. 👏🏻
What a fun topic for a video! All of these look interesting and I want to see them all, but my history nerd side is especially excited for the one about knitting in the ancient world 😄
I've seen those fiber videos from Insider a long while ago & they were interesting while educational, especially since most of us don't know what goes into processing fiber.
Ooh, this will be some great content for now and when you go on your break! Thaks so much for sharing!
I absolutely love your channel your content is always so fresh and new - I am a new knitter and do watch a lot of tutorials, but I watch your channel because it is truly inspiring and I enjoyed the content you never get old LOL - thank you for all the time you put into these videos - I am Canadian and love that you mentioned a few videos/documentaries from our beautiful country.
Thank you so much for your kind words and support! I'm thrilled to hear that you find my content inspiring and enjoyable. And it was a pleasure to highlight Canadian makers. ❤️
What a great idea for a video! Thanks so much for doing the research. I can’t wait to watch them all.😊
This was great content, thank you! And I’m wearing my same shirt today!!! ❤❤❤
Woohoo! So cool. Thank you Jessica. ❤️❤️
Thanks for sharing this video! I am from canada and never have heard of the Cowichan Sweater until now- I will definitely be looking into that further! They look absolutely beautiful.
Thank you for sharing!! If you want something that’s not knitting related but still really interesting and textile related check out Bernadette Banner’s channel, she focuses on historical dress, pattern making, sewing and tailoring techniques done by hand or with her non-electric vintage pedal sewing machine and only uses non-synthetic all natural fabrics and threads. She also has a good sense of humor and a guinea pig. Really interesting content!
I LOVE Bernadette Banner! I started watching her about five years ago and just love watching her work. Such a pleasant person and her humor is 🤌.
LOVE Rajiv and his channel! I just watched his vid about 'The Gansey'. He's lovely.
Thank you Taylor for doing such interesting research. Looking forward to watching the content. Love & gratitude, Linda, UK 💕🧶
My pleasure Linda! Thank you so much for watching! ❤️
I previously stumbled across a couple of the videos you mentioned, the nalbinding and knitting history videos specifically, and was so glad I took the time to watch them. Great information and historical context that expanded my knowledge. I appreciate the recommendations for the other videos you mentioned and will definitely give them a watch. Thanks for sharing these gems.
I just found him talking about Ganseys this week! He’s amazing!
Thank you I did have the Gansey You Tube video pop and throughly enjoyed it. This reminded me that many, many years ago I did knit one in pure wool but it was so itchy 😢
Thanks for sharing this, I had already seen a few of these but will enjoy the others. I have also liked watching some historical documentary snipets (like the 80s) about Shetland lace knitting, the speed cottage style knitting, and more recently Icelandic pullover knitting, traditional Alaskan qiviut knitting, etc. Certainly varying in quality of filmmaking but all informative.
Thank you! This is SO my thing! I've seen a couple of the historical vids you mentioned, and there are a couple of podcasters who have delved into historically accurate knitting. When you get a chance, though, look up Korsnäs sweaters. So amazing and beautiful, with a unique knitting style. They're next on my "learn" list. There is a pattern on rav with a link to a video, but they're on YT, too.
I am an avid crafter of Nålbinding!
This is wonderful. Thank you.
There is a documentary on USA TH-cam on Cowichen Sweaters: Mary Ellen Joe: Cowichan Knitter
Absolutely took value from this video! Thank you!!