Habetrot

Can You Imagine VII

Can you imagine the wife of a US President sitting down to spin at a charkha?

Can you imagine a country putting an image of the wife of a US President sitting down to spin at a charkha on a postage stamp?

 

This stamp of Eleanor Roosevelt (activist and inveterate knitter) was issued by India in 1963 to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Roosevelt's role in its passage.

Roosevelt was such a knitter that the official White House portrait of her includes an image of her knitting hands.

 

I'M KNITTING, DAMMIT!

And, no, I won't say cheese!  32, 33, 34, 35 . . .

 

Corsican Knitters

These two postcards of Corsican knitters date to about the first decade of the twentieth century.

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I find it interesting that there seems to have been a shortage of knitting projects in Corsica around then.

Mothers and Daughters

Mothers knitting with daughters is a common theme in my postcard collection. Here is a hand-tinted image from early in the 20th century.

Fresh Yarn!

Come and get it!

 

"This yarn is fresh like a gentle breeze. 

Please have a useful knitting time."

Simonne Marie

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Knitter and daughter from Evolène, Switzerland.  I like how Simonne Marie chose this postcard to send to her grandmother from Paris.

 

 

Grrrrrr

This knitter, her pretty little girl, and their helpful little dog are from Bethmale in the Ariège department in the mountainous Midi-Pyrénées region in southwest France, not far from the border with Spain.

The hand-tinted postcard dates to around 1905.  (Click images for bigness.)

 

I draw your attention to the knitter's rather extraordinary shoes. The inhabitants of Bethmale have long been known for their footwear, and there is a thousand-year-old rather gruesome legend behind them.  In French here and translated (roughly) here.

And what could be better than a view of sheep in the Pyrenees to take your mind off the gruesomeness?

Rest In Peace, Ruthie

THE Ruth Schooley, Twisted Spinster, passed away on July 15, 2008. 

I will miss her terribly.

Multitasking

~~ From the days when we all KIP'ed all the time. ~~

Why do only one thing when you could be doing three?  Women have been doing it for a long, long time.  This talented lady was from Bückeburg, a small town in the German state of Lower Saxony.


I love the embroidery on her apron, and I would be interested in seeing what her hat looks like without the firkin upon it. 
 

The coat of arms of the town is interesting.  I do believe that is a ball of yarn in the shield motif above the city gate.

Oh Hai. II

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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?