My private museum - Part 2: Knitted socks and stockings
Unlike the tablet-woven bands , which were from the start intended to be displayed, my collection of replicas of knitted objects started as a serie of knitting experiments for reverse engineering or estimating how thin needles were needed for this or that gauge. Only later I added the objects knitted after patterns of other authors, to show the variability of knitting in the past. In chronological order: Child's woolen sock from Egypt (nowadays in the museum in Manchester ), 2nd century CE. Nalbound, not knitted! A similar (and more famous) sock is in British museum , but I did not have the yarn in right colours for that one. :-) Child's cotton sock from Egypt (nowadays in the Textile Museum in Washington DC) , 12th-15th century CE. This replica is a result of many hours spent over the detailed photo, combined with the pattern found on internet - and yet, halfway through my knitting I realized that the jog in my sock is on...