The Loving Stitch: A History of Knitting and Spinning in New Zealand

by Heather Nicholson

Book Overview

This is a history of knitting with its main focus on a chronological picture of antipodean knitting and is also a history of the domestic lives of women, of their resourcefulness, their talent and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1869401883
• ISBN13: 9781869401887
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Auckland University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.6" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

You don't have to be a kiwi to enjoy this...

My family is from New Zealand thought I have always lived in Singapore (so naturally, I'm the only one to knit). I picked up this book while down there on holiday. Now a little creased from being loaned out around the family, this is a treasure. If you don't knit, it's a wonderful way of looking at New Zealand domestically for the last century - the archive photos are fascinating, the details packed in and always a real sense of love for the craft and respect for the many women (and few men) who knit.If you do knit, it's great to read an entire book about other people who knit. No techniques,s ource ideas, just a lot of interesting and occasionally inspiring stories (The baby layette laid out to dry and eaten by a goat...)Heather Nicholson writes fluidly and the extensive endnotes help for mroe reasearch - I visited a lot of museums there, armed with this book! It's a thick, interesting read and a great coffeetable book, like Knitting in America.