Cornish Guernseys & Knit Frocks by Mary Wright
Cornish Guernseys & Knit Frocks

Mary Wright

Cornish Guernseys & Knit Frocks

Mary Wright

68 pages first pub 1979 (editions)

nonfiction history informative lighthearted medium-paced
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In late nineteenth-century Cornwall, hand-knitting was an important cottage industry, and coastal villages developed their own distinctive patterns and names for the traditional navy blue guernsey. By the 1920s, contract knitting had died out and ...

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