Knitting : fashion, industry, craft / Sandy Black.

Charts the development of knitting, from domestic handcraft to one of the most sophisticated computer controlled textile production processes used in high fashion, drawing on the V&A collection of knitted fashions and artefacts--ranging from commonplace articles of everyday use to virtuoso examples...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Black, Sandy
Corporate Author: Victoria and Albert Museum
Language:English
Published: London : V&A Pub., 2012.
Subjects:
Victoria and Albert Museum.
Knitting > History.
Knitwear.
Physical Description:240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • History, tradition, and mythology: from the third to the late nineteenth century
  • Livelihood and industry: hand- and machine-knitting from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries
  • Knitting in the home: from the eighteenth century to the present day
  • Classics to couture: fashion knitwear from 1900 to now.