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People knitting : a century of photographs / Barbara Levine.

by Levine, Barbara, 1960-

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Princeton Architectural Press, [2016]

779.97464 L665p

Knitters (Persons) -- Portraits.

Knitting -- History -- Portraits.

Portrait photography.

Vernacular photography.

Photographs -- Collectors and collecting.

9781616893927 (hc.)

143 pages : chiefly illustrations, black and white, color ; 20 cm.

"A charming tribute in vintage photographs and printed ephemera to the ever-popular, often all-consuming, craft of knitting. When women posed with their knitting in the earliest nineteenth-century photographs, it demonstrated their virtue and skill as homemakers. Later, knitting became fashionable among the wealthy as a sign of culture and artistic ability. During the two world wars, images of nurses, soldiers, prisoners, and even knitting clubs composed of very serious small boys - all with heads bent down, intent on knitting items (especially socks) for the troops - abounded. In the 1950s and 1960s, as snapshots became ubiquitous, knitters took on a jauntier air, posing with handiwork held proudly aloft."--Provided by publisher.

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