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In her 2006 book Thrift to Fantasy: Home textile crafts of the 1930s-1950s, Rosemary McLeod traces the history of home-based handwork in New Zealand. With beautifully detailed photography, she shows...
View ArticleThe Zen of Knitting
I quite like knitting. As it happens, I haven’t really had the time to do any since I went back to full time work, and so there’s a plastic box containing half a shawl and half a kid’s jumper under...
View ArticleRandom kindness, senseless beauty…
… and knitting. Yesterday, I was walking the dog in the Princes Street Gardens when I discovered this: At first, I couldn’t quite believe it – that someone would go to the trouble of hanging...
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