Habetrot

YaaaaaaaaaaY!

HAPPY SPRING!

It's a Lampede!

(click for big lambs)

This happy photo comes from here on Flickr. Thanks, Baalands!

 

Can You Imagine? V

Can you imagine a country that puts a spinner on its currency?

This is a 250-ruble note from Armenia, issued in 1919.  It shows an elderly woman plying yarn from a swift with a charkha.

I particularly like the halo-like sunburst behind her.

New York City

New York City, Central Park.

From an 1869 print.

(click for bigness)

Wouldn't it be amazing if someone brought sheep back to New York City? 

Oh Hai. II

(Click for BIG)

From the Fall 2007 menswear line of John Galliano.  For more from this show, go here.  I had a terrible time deciding which ensemble I liked best, but the wooly horns finally won out.  And the mittens.  I'm not sure what might be in the appendages, though.  Trophies?  Snacks?

I am, however, having a difficult time imagining where a man might wear such haute couture.  Anyone have any ideas?

If this keeps up, I'll have to start a new blog category for high fashion knitting,  LOLKnits.

OH HAI. I KNIDDED U A SCARF SET. U LIEK IT?

Party On!

Any party is better with accordion music, don't you think?

This photo of a scutching party is from the early 20th century and was taken in a village somewhere in eastern Europe. 

(Click for bigness.)

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Mainer Knitting

This photograph was taken in Pittsfield, Maine, sometime in the second half of the 19th century.

(Click for bigness--the detail is excellent.)

I wish I knew more about her, but as is so often the case with photographs such as this, it bears no information about the sitter.

Isn't it wonderful that she chose to have her knitting in hand for a formal studio photograph?

I haven't been able to find any information about a photographer named Howe in Pittsfield, Maine.  I suspect he he may have been an itinerant photographer, traveling from town to town.

For another early knitter who chose to be captured knitting, see this earlier entry.