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No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting - Anne Macdonald
No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting
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Drawn from diaries, letters and personal reminiscences, No Idle Hands tells an intimate and sometimes hair-raising story of hand knitting in America from Colonial times onward. Women knit through the hardships of covered wagon travel across the West. They knit to save their husbands and sons from... show more
Drawn from diaries, letters and personal reminiscences, No Idle Hands tells an intimate and sometimes hair-raising story of hand knitting in America from Colonial times onward. Women knit through the hardships of covered wagon travel across the West. They knit to save their husbands and sons from freezing to death on battlefields. Shell-shocked men knit to save their sanity in hospitals during both world wars. No Idle Hands documents the importance knitting has had in American life.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780345362537 (0345362535)
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 512
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction, History, Crafts, Feminism, American History, Womens, Microhistory, Crafty, Knitting
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This is an interesting read about knitting in America from colonial days to the present of the writer in 1988. The last chapter talking about the boom in the 80's was to be followed by bust and then the modern boom and the explosion of the interaction of Knitting and the Internet. It was also pret...
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