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Chevreul’s simultaneous contrast

The innovative yarn dyer who changed the world of colour

Smookie

a hand-knitted smock for autumn

All dressed in yellow

how our attitudes to colour are bound up with the stories we tell ourselves

Argyll :: Argyle

huge poofy sleeves are optional

twenty titles

It’s the launch day of our twentieth book!

the breaking up of the bluestocking club

the club is over, but there’s the book to come!

sock of the week no.12

creative and industrious stocking knitting men

Marina Moskowitz

an inspiring conversation about everyday stuff and big ideas

sock of the week no. 11

fashion, innovation and stripey socks

sock of the week: no.10

the “everlasting stocking knitters” of Wales

sock of the week no.7

what might a pair of seventeenth-century stockings say about the body that once wore them?

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

sock of the week no.5: Jacobite garters

Stockings which concealed the political message of a lost eighteenth-century cause.

sock of the week no.4

Gairloch stockings: A Highland design success story

sock of the week no.3

Celebrating the world’s first sock knitting book, and its bluestocking author

sock of the week no.2

By: Kate Davies Designs June 2, 2021June 2, 2021

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Eighteenth-century stockings in miniature