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Images of knitting #3

By: Kate Davies Designs May 23, 2013May 23, 2013

costume, ephemera, History, Images of knitting, textilesephemera, images of knitting, knitting, national costume, national stereotypes, postcards, Welsh women22 Comments

Here are a couple more postcards from my collection in which knitting is represented in association with regional / national stereotypes. This is an American card dating from the very early 1900s. It is number 11 in the popular “St Patrick’s series,” whose tone is, of course, incredibly sentimental and nostalgic. One could hardly imagine…

Images of knitting – 2

By: Kate Davies Designs April 30, 2013April 30, 2013

ephemera, Images of knitting, knitters, knittingadvetisments, biscuits, ephemera, feminism, images of knitting, knitting, McVities, nostalgia, postcards, Sunlight Soap, work49 Comments

Here are a couple more postcards from my collection. Strictly speaking, these are reproductions of advertisments, but I am particularly fond of the Sunlight Soap image which, as you can see, has been pinned on my board for some time. I find it interesting for the way it represents knitting as a leisure activity, rather…

images of knitting #1

By: Kate Davies Designs March 28, 2013April 11, 2013

ephemera, History, Images of knitting, knitters, knitting, readingAustria, ephemera, first world war, History, knitters, knitting, Philadelphia N Robertson50 Comments

I have a small (but ever growing) collection of prints and postcard in which knitters, and the activity of knitting, are represented. Some of these are really very interesting, and I thought I’d occasionally share them with you here. This card, which was posted with an Austrian stamp in 1916, depicts a ‘continental’ knitter working…