Woolly thinking: part 1

Wool snood at French Connection containing 0% wool and 100% Acrylic. We’ve had some WOVEMBER feedback suggesting that we are being overly dogmatic in our insistence that the word wool should pertain to sheep’s wool only. These comments are useful to read, and very interesting since they suggest how wide the application and understanding of…

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retrovintage

Needled reviews: Lise-Lotte Lystrup, Vintage Knitwear for Modern Knitters (Thames & Hudson, 2008) Kari Cornell and Jean Lampe, Retro Knits: Cool Vintage Patterns for Men, Women and Children from the 1900s through the 1970s (Voyageur Press, 2008) Most knitters will have noticed the recent ubiquity of all things “vintage” in the world of wool. There…

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