My private museum - Part 3: Other knitted objects...
...except socks and stockings.
A sample of the wrist pattern from the so-called St. Adalbert's glove (probably 13th century). Knitted as a test, when I was trying to find out how thin needles were needed for a gauge 7-8 loops* per cm. (The answer: 0.75 mm (=US 000000)). The sample was intentionally left unfinished on the needle, for people who could not believe that such a fine knitting had been made by hand and not by machine.
Two berets based on the find from Venetian ship wrecked in 1583 and the instructions published in Textile Conservation and Research by Mechtild Flury-Lemberg. The shape of the first one (grey), which was knitted exactly following the pattern, does not look right. In the brown beret I started increases already in the 2nd course and only then continued with increases in each 5th course, following the instructions, and it looks much better.
Child's woollen mitten from London, 16th century. Based on the photo and dimesions on the museum website.
Baby cotton jacket from England, 17th-18th century. (There are more preserved specimens than the one in the link). Based on the research done by Ruth Gilbert. Almost a year after I finished knitting, I am still trying to muster the courage to cut the front. :-)
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* loops = stitches, courses = rows; I am following the terminology proposed by Jane Malcolm-Davies et al. in the article Unravelling the confusions: Defining concepts to record archaelogical and historical evidence for knitting, Archaelogical Textile Review 60, pp. 10-24 (2018).
Two berets based on the find from Venetian ship wrecked in 1583 and the instructions published in Textile Conservation and Research by Mechtild Flury-Lemberg. The shape of the first one (grey), which was knitted exactly following the pattern, does not look right. In the brown beret I started increases already in the 2nd course and only then continued with increases in each 5th course, following the instructions, and it looks much better.
Child's woollen mitten from London, 16th century. Based on the photo and dimesions on the museum website.
Baby cotton jacket from England, 17th-18th century. (There are more preserved specimens than the one in the link). Based on the research done by Ruth Gilbert. Almost a year after I finished knitting, I am still trying to muster the courage to cut the front. :-)
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* loops = stitches, courses = rows; I am following the terminology proposed by Jane Malcolm-Davies et al. in the article Unravelling the confusions: Defining concepts to record archaelogical and historical evidence for knitting, Archaelogical Textile Review 60, pp. 10-24 (2018).