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People Knitting: A Century of Photographs

About the Book

People Knitting: A Century of Photographs

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 19th-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.

People Knitting: A Century of Photographs
by Barbara Levine

  • Publication Date: October 4, 2016
  • Genres: History, Nonfiction, Photography
  • Hardcover: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
  • ISBN-10: 1616893923
  • ISBN-13: 9781616893927