PieceWork January/February 2014

PieceWork's 8th Annual Historical Knitting Issue!

Editor' Note: Spin Off's sister publication PieceWork focuses on historic textiles and their makers from across the globe. Handspinners will find this special historical knitting issue of PieceWork brimming with inspiration and context for our work.

Read about sixteenth-century knitters in Peru using their handspun cotton yarns for socks, and then knit your own! Learn about intricate colorwork gloves from Scotland, and so much more.

PieceWork January/February 2014 is the 8th annual historical knitting issue featuring knitting patterns and stories of the past for the knitters of today.

Knit 16th-Century Peruvian Socks, Create your own 1785 Sailor's Cap, and knit spectactular Sanquhar-Patterened Gloves!

This issue of PieceWork magazines includes:

• A study of spencer jackets from the Regency era, as well as a Jane Austen-inspired Kerseymere Spencer Jacket to knit.
• A look at the glorious gloves of Sanquhar and Nancy Bush's Sanquhar Gloves in a Drum Pattern to knit.
• A story of Wool, Whaling, and the Red Bay Burial: Resurrecting a 16-Century Whaling cap with a Basque cap to knit.
• A study of the oldest knitting in the world, with Magdalena de Cao Viejo Stockings to knit.
• A story of textile archaeologists and craftspeople working together.
• Treasures from the ocean floor with a look at knits from General Carleton.
• A tribute baby sweater to knit.
• A knitted wedding dress from a WWII parachute.
• Necessities for the knitter, and more!