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Vintage Crochet
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Crochet is a type of knitting that became popular in the West during the 19th century. Also known as shepherd's knitting, crochet uses a needle known as a shepherd's hook, named for the hook at its end, which is used to grab yarn, usually wool....
Crochet is a type of knitting that became popular in the West during the 19th century. Also known as shepherd's knitting, crochet uses a needle known as a shepherd's hook, named for the hook at its end, which is used to grab yarn, usually wool. Taking its name from a French word for hook, croche, crochet is simpler than knitting, which requires two needles rather than one. One common application of crochet is to create borders around kitchen textiles such as napkins and tablecloths.
After the potato famine in Ireland, 1845 to 1850, a period when many Victorian-era farming families made ends meet by producing cuffs for the ends of men's shirt sleeves, as well as collars for women's dresses, crochet patterns were sold with instructions on how to make everything from bird cage covers to tobacco pouches to lace-like antimacassars, which were strategically placed at the top of chairs and sofas to prevent the greasy macassar oil that people applied to their hair from staining their furniture.
Rugs and cushion covers were also popular examples of crochetwork, as were pot holders, cozies for teapots, and all manner of shawls and wraps. Crochet cloche hats were a hit in the 1920s, as were casual dresses and even fashionable gowns. During World War II, American and British women were encouraged to crochet caps for the troops fighting overseas, in some cases to keep their heads warm, in others to cover the ears in order to muffle the sounds of artillery fire and exploding bombs.
By the 1960s, crochet took on counterculture associations, a back-to-the-land handicraft that thumbed its nose at common, mass-produced goods. Along with macrame, which is constructed of knots, crochet could signal not just one's aesthetics but their politics as well. That said, concurrent with the late-20th-century revival of crochet was the eventual ubiquity of one of its central elements, the granny square, which gets its name from the age-old practice of delivering a stack of finished squares to an elder (the aforementioned granny), whose job it was to hook them together to create blankets and other textiles.
Continue readingCrochet is a type of knitting that became popular in the West during the 19th century. Also known as shepherd's knitting, crochet uses a needle known as a shepherd's hook, named for the hook at its end, which is used to grab yarn, usually wool. Taking its name from a French word for hook, croche, crochet is simpler than knitting, which requires two needles rather than one. One common application of crochet is to create borders around kitchen textiles such as napkins and tablecloths.
After the potato famine in Ireland, 1845 to 1850, a period when many Victorian-era farming families made ends meet by producing cuffs for the ends of men's shirt sleeves, as well as collars for women's dresses, crochet patterns were sold with instructions on how to make everything from bird cage covers to tobacco pouches to lace-like antimacassars, which were strategically placed at the top of chairs and sofas to prevent the greasy macassar oil that people applied to their hair from staining their furniture.
Rugs and cushion covers were also popular examples of crochetwork, as were pot holders, cozies for teapots, and all manner of shawls and wraps. Crochet cloche hats were a hit in the 1920s, as were casual dresses and even fashionable gowns. During World War II, American and British women were encouraged to crochet caps for the troops fighting overseas, in some cases to keep their heads warm, in others to cover the ears in order to muffle the sounds of artillery fire and exploding bombs.
By the 1960s, crochet took on counterculture associations, a back-to-the-land handicraft that thumbed its nose at common, mass-produced goods. Along with macrame, which is constructed of knots, crochet could signal not just one's aesthetics but their politics as well. That said, concurrent with the late-20th-century revival of crochet was the eventual ubiquity of one of its central elements, the granny square, which gets its name from the age-old practice of delivering a stack of finished...
Crochet is a type of knitting that became popular in the West during the 19th century. Also known as shepherd's knitting, crochet uses a needle known as a shepherd's hook, named for the hook at its end, which is used to grab yarn, usually wool. Taking its name from a French word for hook, croche, crochet is simpler than knitting, which requires two needles rather than one. One common application of crochet is to create borders around kitchen textiles such as napkins and tablecloths.
After the potato famine in Ireland, 1845 to 1850, a period when many Victorian-era farming families made ends meet by producing cuffs for the ends of men's shirt sleeves, as well as collars for women's dresses, crochet patterns were sold with instructions on how to make everything from bird cage covers to tobacco pouches to lace-like antimacassars, which were strategically placed at the top of chairs and sofas to prevent the greasy macassar oil that people applied to their hair from staining their furniture.
Rugs and cushion covers were also popular examples of crochetwork, as were pot holders, cozies for teapots, and all manner of shawls and wraps. Crochet cloche hats were a hit in the 1920s, as were casual dresses and even fashionable gowns. During World War II, American and British women were encouraged to crochet caps for the troops fighting overseas, in some cases to keep their heads warm, in others to cover the ears in order to muffle the sounds of artillery fire and exploding bombs.
By the 1960s, crochet took on counterculture associations, a back-to-the-land handicraft that thumbed its nose at common, mass-produced goods. Along with macrame, which is constructed of knots, crochet could signal not just one's aesthetics but their politics as well. That said, concurrent with the late-20th-century revival of crochet was the eventual ubiquity of one of its central elements, the granny square, which gets its name from the age-old practice of delivering a stack of finished squares to an elder (the aforementioned granny), whose job it was to hook them together to create blankets and other textiles.
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