It’s the launch day of our twentieth book!
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All articles filed in textile history
the breaking up of the bluestocking club
the club is over, but there’s the book to come!
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sock of the week no.12
creative and industrious stocking knitting men
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Marina Moskowitz
an inspiring conversation about everyday stuff and big ideas
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sock of the week no. 11
fashion, innovation and stripey socks
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sock of the week: no.10
the “everlasting stocking knitters” of Wales
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sock of the week no.7
what might a pair of seventeenth-century stockings say about the body that once wore them?
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sock of the week no. 6: clocks and socks
an image connecting the histories of eighteenth-century intimate apparel, government taxation, and the democratisation of timekeeping
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sock of the week no.5: Jacobite garters
Stockings which concealed the political message of a lost eighteenth-century cause.
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sock of the week no.4
Gairloch stockings: A Highland design success story
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sock of the week no.3
Celebrating the world’s first sock knitting book, and its bluestocking author
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sock of the week no.2
Eighteenth-century stockings in miniature
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sock of the week no.1
Philippe Mercier’s popular portrait of an eighteenth-century stocking knitter
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a chat with Nicole Pohl
Nicole tells us more about her work on the women of the Bluestocking circle
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the bluestocking club
all about the Bluestocking club
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out of the woods
Outi Kater introduces a wonderful design inspired by Finnish childhood winters and restorative woodland spaces
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