I have been listening to North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell through Craft Lit. Craft Lit is a weekly podcast featuring an audio book reading with commentary, hosted by Heather Ordover. The books are all out of copyright books in the public domain, mainly Victorian fiction such as Dracula, Jane Eyre, The Woman in White and currently […]
Tag: Historical
Now don’t freak out, this is a longish post, I’ve been a’readin’ and a’thinkin’…just get a cup of tea. People who are not from Australia, often assume that because we are renown for producing fine merino, we must be a nation of knitters and spinners. Unfortunately, this is not so. Australia is no Iceland that […]
Inspired by this photograph and the recent Knit in Public Day, I’ve been taking my knitting everywhere as an experiment. Let me first tell you a bit about the picture. I came across it whilst looking for images of Shetland hap shawls so I could see what kind of edging they had on them. I […]
Isn’t this a lot of knitted loveliness? I took this pic at Morwellham Quay, near Tavistock in Devon. The whole village is a World Heritage site of Victorian/Edwardian life. There is a working farm, copper mine, railway and dock as well as a forge, coopers, assayer’s office and general store. This counterpane was in the […]
One thousand years ago, a soldier lost his ‘housewife’ at the Roman Fort Vindolanda in the North of England. The Fort guarded the Roman Road called the Stangate. It was positioned very close to Hadrian’s Wall as part of the defenses for keeping the barbarians out of Roman Britain. His ‘housewife’ as it was called, […]
