No Idle Hands The Social History of American Knitting

Name: No Idle Hands The Social History of American Knitting
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ISBN: 9780345362537

ISBN-10: 0345362535

ISBN-13: 9780345362537

Edition: N/A

Authors: Anne L. MacDonald

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An historian and lifelong knitter, Anne Macdonald now expertly guides readers on a revealing tour of the history of knitting in America. In No Idle Hands Macdonald considers how the necessity -- and the pleasure -- of knitting has shaped women's lives.

Book details

List price: $25.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/7/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xv
Colonial Knitters	p. 3
Knitting for Liberty	p. 26
Knitting in the Circle of Domesticity	p. 44
Westward Knit!	p. 69
Knitting for the Blue	p. 97
Knitting for the Gray	p. 116
Mid-Century Knitters	p. 134
Sporty Victorian Knitters	p. 160
Old Knitters in New Roles	p. 175
Oh, Say Can You Knit--For Sammy?	p. 199
Men and Children for Sammy, Too	p. 225
Flappers Versus the "Old-Fashioned Knitters"	p. 239
The Thirties Knitting Craze	p. 259
The Forties: Knitting in War and Peace	p. 289
Knitting from A to Z: Argyles to Zimmermann	p. 321
Knitting Now and WhitherKnit?	p. 340
Notes	p. 363
Bibliography	p. 421
Index	p. 461
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