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a postcard from Argyll

how do we look at a landscape when there might seem to be nothing to see?

Images of knitting #3

By: Kate Davies Designs May 23, 2013May 23, 2013

costume, ephemera, History, Images of knitting, textilesephemera, images of knitting, knitting, national costume, national stereotypes, postcards, Welsh women22 Comments

Here are a couple more postcards from my collection in which knitting is represented in association with regional / national stereotypes. This is an American card dating from the very early 1900s. It is number 11 in the popular “St Patrick’s series,” whose tone is, of course, incredibly sentimental and nostalgic. One could hardly imagine…

Images of knitting – 2

By: Kate Davies Designs April 30, 2013April 30, 2013

ephemera, Images of knitting, knitters, knittingadvetisments, biscuits, ephemera, feminism, images of knitting, knitting, McVities, nostalgia, postcards, Sunlight Soap, work49 Comments

Here are a couple more postcards from my collection. Strictly speaking, these are reproductions of advertisments, but I am particularly fond of the Sunlight Soap image which, as you can see, has been pinned on my board for some time. I find it interesting for the way it represents knitting as a leisure activity, rather…

a kiss from France

By: Kate Davies Designs April 9, 2013March 5, 2018

embroidery, History, textilesembroidered postcards, embroidery, first world war, first world war postcards, First World War silks, postcard history, postcards, sentiment, silk postcards, stitch, textiles, World War 1 silks82 Comments

I so enjoyed your translations and comments on this post, that I thought I’d continue the First World War theme with some of my favourite items in my postcard collection. Known to collectors generically as “silks”, these machine-embroidered cards first appeared around 1900, and were produced in vast quantities during the twentieth century’s first two…

correspondence

These are my pinboards at the Astley Ainsley Hospital, covered with the wonderful cards and messages you sent. Being in hospital is a difficult business. For me, the dissociating effect of being a patient in an institution was compounded by the fact that I was inhabiting a body which did not seem to be mine…