Vintage hand knitting patterns

     Here we go again with some more vintage patterns:) These were a wind fall from a retired professional hand knitter. There are some very charming surface textures as well as novel crochet/ knit mixing. As well as some great sideways knitted garments in the baby clothes photos below. There is just too much content to present in one post so I will add more in the coming weeks.

     Its hard to express how I feel about these acquisitions. I seem to collect books and equipment which 
are of course technically interesting but which represent the passing of a craft technology skill that should not be disappearing.  In fact the majority of my more interesting equipment/ materials have been acquired from individuals over 70 years of age. At some point I'd like to talk about where these people worked and came from and how craft technology was something they built a career around, but I think this post is great as an inspirational one.

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