No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting by Anne L. Macdonald

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No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting

by Anne L. Macdonald

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This is another indispensable book on the history of knitting. It is, as advertised, a social history, and as such focuses on what people were knitting, and why, rather than on patterns and techniques. It's a fascinating portrait of the knitting women and men in the United States. (

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Drawn from diaries, letters and personal reminiscences, No Idle Hands tells an intimate and sometimes hair-raising story of hand knitting in America from Colonial times onward. Women knit through the hardships of covered wagon travel across the West. They knit to save their husbands and sons from freezing to death on battlefields. Shell-shocked men knit to save their sanity in hospitals during both world wars. No Idle Hands documents the importance knitting has had in American life.

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