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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Language: | English |
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London :
V&A Pub.,
2012.
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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.