Lace Knitting (Openwork)
What is lace knitting? At the present time, lace knitting is enjoying a popularity it has not known since Victorian times. Lace knitting is a derivative craft. It evolved from…
A Knitting Book of Counter-panes
By Mrs George Cupples. First published about 1871. Gives stitch patterns for squares and strips that can be made up into counterpanes.
Helping the Trawlers 1896
1896 publication from the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, with patterns for knitted comforts.
Helping the Trawlers 1940
Directions for woollen comforts, produced by the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen. The 1940 edition - some overlap with the earlier 1896 edition.
Gloves in Stylish Crochet
'New Models and Old Favourites' - A 1950s Coats pattern booklet for gloves crocheted in cotton. 6 designs.
Jevons & Mellor Price List, April 1916
A Birmingham store's mail order price list, mainly of yarns for knitting and crochet.
W. H. Head & Son Price List 1918-1919
A price list of assorted haberdashery from the end of WW1, including knitting needles, crochet hooks & other tools.
Walsall Wool Stores 1939 catalogue
Includes several knitting patterns, as well as ads for leaflets then available to buy from the Stores.
The Needle, vol. 1, no. 6
A single issue of a magazine published by Mlle Riego de la Branchardiere, in 1852.
Woolcraft 2nd edition
Our Collection has an extremely worn (but readable) copy of an edition published during the First World War.
