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sunday links

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

Sunday links

Bach, a local illustrator, and an inspiring project to recreate historic knitwear

lady in a green dress

the shifting fortunes of a changeable colour

Magenta matters

the shade that soaks up meaning

The colours of Norwegian knitting

Eli Leistad introduces us to colourful combinations, old and new

Smookie

a hand-knitted smock for autumn

All dressed in yellow

how our attitudes to colour are bound up with the stories we tell ourselves

Marina Moskowitz

an inspiring conversation about everyday stuff and big ideas

sock of the week no. 11

fashion, innovation and stripey socks

sock of the week: no.10

the “everlasting stocking knitters” of Wales

sock of the week no.7

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

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

sock of the week no.5: Jacobite garters

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

sock of the week no.2

Eighteenth-century stockings in miniature

sock of the week no.1

Philippe Mercier’s popular portrait of an eighteenth-century stocking knitter

the fabric of memory

Do you dream in textiles?