{"product_id":"bold-beginner-knits-copy","title":"Bluestockings","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis beautiful new book - co-edited by Kate Davies and Nicole Pohl - brings together a celebration of the group of eighteenth-century learned women known as the Bluestockings, with a wide-ranging exploration of sock and stocking knitting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book’s first section features different perspectives on the history of socks and stockings, from expert contributors like Susan North (curator of eighteenth-century fashion at the V\u0026amp;A) and Sonja Bargielowska (of John Arbon worsted spinners). In the book’s second section, essays about creative eighteenth-century women such as Mary Delany and Phillis Wheatley Peters are accompanied by contemporary toe-up patterns for socks and stockings. Among our Bluestocking-inspired designs you’ll find openwork and texture, stripes, chevrons, stranded colourwork, and a go-to sock and stocking recipe named for talented eighteenth-century classicist (and knitter) Elizabeth Carter. Setting top tips about knitting toe-up socks alongside an exploration of historic dyestuffs, and bringing groundbreaking women writers together with accessible, wearable design, this lavishly illustrated volume offers an exciting in-the-round combination of material history, contemporary making, and early feminism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors: Sonja Bargielowska, Kate Davies, Kristina Decker, Elizabeth Eger, Susan North, Nicole Pohl, Isabella Whitworth.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kate Davies Designs","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50527611027608,"sku":"210851","price":54.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/0758\/7480\/files\/Bluestockings_cover_small2.webp?v=1790303286","url":"https:\/\/www.salamancawoolshop.com\/products\/bold-beginner-knits-copy","provider":"Salamanca Wool Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}