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Needlework was an important fact of women's identity during the Victorian age, including embroidery, netting, knitting, crochet, and Berlin wool work. A growing middle class had more leisure time than ever before; printed materials offered homemakers thousands of patterns.
The recital included an improvised dance performance using trompe-l'œil knit outfits of iconic Barbie clothes of 1959 (which BillyBoy* created in 1984 after designs he made in the 1970s) to tribal-like music BillyBoy* had recorded in 2008 called "Vroom Vroom" (appearing as a guest on Lala's recent album).
A stocking frame was a mechanical knitting machine used in the textiles industry. It was invented by William Lee of Calverton near Nottingham in 1589. Its use, known traditionally as framework knitting, was the first major stage in the mechanisation of the textile industry, and played an important part in the early history of the Industrial ...
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Lace knitting is a style of knitting characterized by stable holes in the fabric arranged with consideration of aesthetic value. Lace is sometimes considered the pinnacle of knitting , because of its complexity and because woven fabrics cannot easily be made to have holes.
A Victorian Lady (colorway red shawl, yellow blue dress) 1928 1938 HN1278 HN1279 Kathleen (red dress, dark blue hat and bow) Leslie Harradine 1928 1938 HN1280 Blue Bird Leslie Harradine 1927 1938 HN1281 Scotties HN1282 The Alchemist Leslie Harradine 1927 1938 HN1283 The Cobbler, 2nd version Charles J Noke 1928 1949 HN1284 Lady Jester HN1285 HN1286
Victorian fashion consists of the various fashions and trends in British culture that emerged and developed in the United Kingdom and the British Empire throughout the Victorian era, roughly from the 1830s through the 1890s. The period saw many changes in fashion, including changes in styles, fashion technology and the methods of distribution.