Knitting Collection (page 2)

Lady in traditional dress in Tan-y-Bwlch, Wales, Victorian period, hand coloured photo

Girl in Shetland knitting as she walks, Scotland

A Shetland Knitter Victorian period

Lady carrying peat and knitting, Shetland Isles

Wartime P & B Knitting Wools Advert
A wartime advertisement promoting P & B knitting wools, the photograph portrays a young woman showing off her striped cardigan. You can knit it from odd ounces and save precious coupons

WW2 Greetings Card, For Freedom!
A WW2 greetings card with a white ribbon, the illustration portrays a young woman knitting a large Union Jack flag upon her decorative chair. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 Women Sewing
This illustration shows four women sat at home, knitting and sewing to assemble comforts for the war services during WW2. Date: circa 1941

WW2 - Knitting for the Merchant Seamen
WW2 - Home Front - A lovely photograph of 78 year-old Isabella Ottilie Simpkins of Whitstable, Kent - knitting for the Merchant Seamen Date: circa 1941

Swansea and South Wales Institution for the Blind
Girls knitting and sewing at the Swansea and South Wales Institution for the Blind

Girl Knitting
A photograph used for advertisement purposes, portraying a young girl concentrating on her knitting. Date: circa 1939

An Embroidered Jumper for Coronation Year
Knitting pattern, An Embroidered Jumper for Coronation Year, with a lion design Date: 1953

Table of handiwork, Garden Fete at Charlton Park, London
Table of knitting and sewing, Garden Fete at Charlton Park, SE London, 17 July 1920 Date: 1920

Granny
A portrait painting of an old granny wearing a white bonnet, sat at a kitchen table doing some knitting. Date: circa 1922

Allenburys Diet Advertisement
An advertisement for Allen & Hanburys Ltd, promoting Allenbury's diet for invalids. They have used a portrait painting of a young Red Cross nurse from 1914-15, who is seated wearing her uniform

A Girl Knitting, by Philippe Mercier
A Girl Knitting by German-French Huguenot artist Philippe Mercier Date: 1724

Purl but not Plain
Illustration, Purl but not Plain of young woman in front of fireplace with knitting and black cat. From the painting, Two Minutes Silence, by Dorothy Webster Hawksley (1884?)

Stealing wool to Fly a Kite, Henry cartoon by Carl Anderson Date: 1936

A canoe-necked knitted top, with a beaded design. Date: 1954

Knitted jacket and slacks, with a fashionable nautical theme. Date: 1954

A striped jumper, knitted "on the cross". Date: 1954

A drop shoulder cardigan in honeycomb stitch, published with instructions on how to create the garment at home. Date: 1954

Some ideas and instructions for home knitting projects - a reversible cardigan and a jumper. Date: 1943

Some ideas and instructions for home knitting projects - a twin set, and woollen stockings. Date: 1943

Designs for women's knitwear, published with instructions on how to make the garments at home. Date: 1943

Grandmother giving little girl a knitting lesson Date: 19th century

Spanish Civil War poster, For the brothers on the front
Spanish Civil War poster in Catalan, For the brothers on the front -- Women! Work. PSU, UGT. Designed by Carles Fontsere. 1936

Queen Victoria with Princess Henry of Battenberg
Queen Victoria with her youngest daughter Princess Henry of Battenberg. Date: January 1898

Tied up with wool, knitting. Text: I wish thread make their own socks by S. Hurley

Comic postcard, Man looking for his spectacles - Spoonerisms Date: 20th century

Scottish lasses knitting jerseys for the fishermen during their dinner hour. Date: November 1912

Comic postcard, Couple discussing incubators for babies Date: 20th century

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Now this economy is here
The Caption is Now this economy is here - we ll have to darn the darns Ole dear. They have been darning since 1941 so they probably really are down to the darns

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Wool without coupons
The Caption is Wool without coupons. Although the card was posted in 1947, the drawing is about wartime clothes rationing which did not finish until 1949. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: 1947

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - I m doin me knit
The Caption reads I m doing my knit - a play on the wartime need to do your bit. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: 1941

River Firemen knitting bags. Date: circa 1941

Trades in Regency England. Sail cloth, stone quarries and timber for ship building. Sailors unfurling a canvas sail on a ship 13, men moving blocks of stone in a Portland quarry 14

Trades in Regency Scotland: distillery, cannon boring and paviours. Workers distilling whisky in a distillery in Edinburgh 70, worker boring a cannon at Carron Works factory 71

Trades in Regency England: flannel market, copper mines and shoe-maker. Man showing rolls of flannel cloth in Welchpool 46, miners digging for copper ore in Parys Mine, Anglesea 47

Knitting for the long winter evenings, 1943. Patterns for vest and pants, and a pastel sweater. Date: 1943

Whitworth knitting machine. Date: 1846

Advert, Fleisher Knitting Wool. 1922

Silhouette, Refreshment Counter at London Terminal. late 19th century

The Woman At the Knitting Party... by H. M. Bateman
The Woman at the Knitting Party Who Dared to Knit Herself a Jumper by H. M. Bateman (while the rest of the group get on with knitting socks and other comforts for serving soldiers). Date: 1940

Advert, James Templeton & Son, Ayr, Scotland
Advert for James Templeton & Son, Worsted Spinners, Ayr, Scotland. 1905

The Winding of the Skein. 1870

Knitted womens cardigans 1940
Page from a magazine showing two models wearing knitted cardigans. With the onset of World War Two and the introduction of rationing, many chose to knit their own clothes as a cheaper alternative

Knitted swim wear 1940
Page from a magazine showing a model wearing a knitted bikini. Date: 1940

Advert for The Modern Knitting Book
Black and white advert for The Modern Knitting Book, inside The Etiquette of To-Day, edited by Flora Klickmann. Date: circa 1914

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