sunday links

By: Kate Davies Designs
art, bluestockings, colour, colour at work, film, folk art, History, knitting, music, publishing, socks, sunday links, textile history, textiles, women, writing, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 12 Comments on sunday links

a documentary, an exhibition, an EP, and 49,000 pairs of early nineteenth-century stockings

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Esk

By: Kate Davies Designs
creativity, design, Kate Davies Designs, kits, knitting, , , , , , , , , , , , , 8 Comments on Esk

a pair of cosy slippers

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A Summer in socks

By: Kate Davies Designs
amazing knitters, bluestockings, sock of the week, socks, women, writing, , , , , , , , , , , , , 8 Comments on A Summer in socks

Rebecca Osborn’s bluestocking summer

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sock of the week no.12

By: Kate Davies Designs
bluestockings, History, Images of knitting, knitting, sock of the week, socks, textile history, , , , , , , , , , , , 25 Comments on sock of the week no.12

creative and industrious stocking knitting men

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sock of the week no. 11

By: Kate Davies Designs
colour, creativity, fashion, History, sock of the week, socks, textile history, , , , , , , , , , , , , 7 Comments on sock of the week no. 11

fashion, innovation and stripey socks

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stocking blocking

By: Kate Davies Designs
bluestockings, socks, tutorial, , , , , , , , , , , , 21 Comments on stocking blocking

a simple set of home-made blockers, for all your stocking blocking needs

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sock of the week: no.10

By: Kate Davies Designs
bluestockings, costume, fashion, feminism, folk art, History, Images of knitting, knitting, sock of the week, socks, textile history, textiles, women, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 26 Comments on sock of the week: no.10

the “everlasting stocking knitters” of Wales

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sock of the week no.7

By: Kate Davies Designs
bluestockings, History, sock of the week, socks, textile history, textiles, , , , , , , , , , , , , 17 Comments on sock of the week no.7

what might a pair of seventeenth-century stockings say about the body that once wore them?

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knitting (and fitting) colourwork socks

By: Kate Davies Designs
bluestockings, colour, Fair Isle, fairisle, socks, , , , , , , , , , , , 10 Comments on knitting (and fitting) colourwork socks

how might a colourwork sock differ from one knitted in plain stockinette?

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sock of the week no. 6: clocks and socks

By: Kate Davies Designs
bluestockings, History, sock of the week, socks, textile history, textiles, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 28 Comments on sock of the week no. 6: clocks and socks

an image connecting the histories of eighteenth-century intimate apparel, government taxation, and the democratisation of timekeeping

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sock of the week no.5: Jacobite garters

By: Kate Davies Designs
bluestockings, History, Politics, Scotland, Scottish textiles, sock of the week, socks, textile history, textiles, West Highlands, , , , , , , , , , , , , , 8 Comments on sock of the week no.5: Jacobite garters

Stockings which concealed the political message of a lost eighteenth-century cause.

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sock of the week no.4

By: Kate Davies Designs
bluestockings, design, History, knitting, Scotland, Scottish textiles, sock of the week, socks, textile history, textiles, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 14 Comments on sock of the week no.4

Gairloch stockings: A Highland design success story

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