Collection items

The earliest items in the Collection date from the 18th century.  This purse form the 18th century combines knitting in fine red silk at the top and crochet in metallic…

Photo: K&CG Collection This piece is one of the finest and most fragile pieces in the collection. Irish crochet lined with light yellow silk which has small pleats all around…

Apricot top, knitted in art silk (rayon) in the 1920s. These tops were knitted from the bottom at the front, continued over the shoulders and down the back. There are…

Knitted cacti by Jan Messent. These very realistic mini cacti were probably made in the 1980's when Jan wrote several books. The items came into the Guild's collection in the…

Photo: K&CG Collection Knitted by the wearer's fiance/wife while they were living apart, she had to travel by train from Leeds to Manchester to see him. He worked for the…