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Underwear and Other Garments
There were some very nice patterns in a recent donation to the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection, and I thought I would share some of them here. They date back to the 1950s, or even earlier, and...
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Wonder Socks
Wonder Series leaflet No. 1There are three knitting pattern leaflets in the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection for 'Wonder-Socks', with the slogan 'No Darning' on the front. They don't need...
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Wolsey Knitting Wools
Wolsey leaflet 943I was aware of Wolsey as a long established brand name of ready-made knitwear and hosiery, and I can just about remember it as a brand of stockings in the 1960s. But I had not heard...
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Two 1920 Knitting Patterns
Some time ago, the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection was given two knitting patterns - this is a long-overdue post about them. You might think that it is not worth writing about a donation of two...
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Marriner's Knitting Patterns
Marriner's leaflet No. 163I have been compiling a catalogue of Marriner's leaflets in the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection from the late 1940s and early 1950s. They are now out of copyright, so...
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A 1949 Sports Jersey
The sweater shown in the photo was donated to the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection more than 30 years ago, in 1994. We have the matching pattern, too - in fact, probably the copy that the...
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Patons' Embroidered Badges
I found two embroidered badges in the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection quite a while ago. They are machine-embroidered on felt, with a stiff backing, vaguely heraldic in design, with 'PATONS',...
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Spattees and Silk Winders
I bought a copy of the magazine Needlework for All on eBay recently — I'll donate it to the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection after I've written this post. It's the December 1926 issue (there is...
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The Wheel of Fortune
I recently acquired a new addition to my collection of knitting needle gauges. An exciting acquisition, as I had never seen one for sale before, though I knew of it from Sheila Williams book 'The...
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1920s knickers
I wrote a couple of posts last year about several knitted garments in the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection that were made in the early 1950s using Patons & Baldwins patterns from the 1920s....
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Little Dorritt wools
I saw a skein of knitting yarn in the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection recently - Little Dorritt 100% Nylon. I remembered that I had also seen a pattern for Little Dorritt wool and nylon sock...
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An (Almost) A to Z of Knitting Needles, Part 2
In the last post, I showed knitting needle brands with names beginning A to M - here I'll show the second half of the alphabet.You might think that it would be easy to find a needle brand for N, but...
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An (Almost) A to Z of Knitting Needle Brands
Back in 2014, the volunteers working on the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection had a week of concentrated work trying to sort out the hundreds (or thousands) of knitting needles that had been...
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The P&B Family Album
Patons & Baldwins became very good at advertising their wares by the 1930s. They were publishing about 100 'Helps to Knitters' pattern leaflets every year, intended of course to sell their wools,...
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A Novel Wool Winder
John saw this issue of Hobbies Weekly from September 1940 at a collectors' fleamarket, and bought it for me because of the illustration of a Novel Wool Winder on the front cover (he is not, I'm glad...
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Queen Mary's Petticoat
Child's Crochet PetticoatThis crocheted petticoat for a little girl was given to the Knitting & Crochet Guild in 2016. The donor had bought a chest of drawers in an Exeter antique centre, and...
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1920s Woolly Jumpers
In the last post, I wrote about outfits in the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection that were knitted in the early 1950s from 1920s patterns. Here's another, based on the same set of Beehive...
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A 1920s Costume
I wrote about the Coats-Patons donation in the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection in my last post, and said there that some of them are knitted from vintage Patons & Baldwins patterns. I have...
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Spats Revisited
In 2014, the Knitting & Crochet Guild received a donation from Coats plc of an archive of about 60 garments. Coats plc at that time owned the Patons brand, previously Patons & Baldwins. There...
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Disneyland Wools
These six balls of angora knitting wool were added to the Knitting & Crochet Guild collection this week. They were found in a charity shop by one of the volunteers working on the collection. The...
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