People Knitting: A Century of Photographs

By Paige Ramey and Barbara Levine

Book Overview

People Knitting is a charming tribute in vintage photographs and printed ephemera to the ever-popular, often all-consuming, craft of knitting. When women posed with their knitting in the earliest nineteenth-century photographs, it demonstrated their virtue and skill as homemakers. Later, knitting became fashionable among the wealthy as a sign of culture and artistic ability. During the two world wars, images of nurses, soldiers, prisoners, and even knitting clubs composed of very serious small boys--all with heads bent down, intent on knitting items (especially socks) for the troops--abounded. In the 1950s and 1960s, as snapshots became ubiquitous, knitters took on a jauntier air, posing with handiwork held proudly aloft. People Knitting is a quirky and fascinating gift for the knitter in your life.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1616893923
• ISBN13: 9781616893927
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.6"