Hand-Knitting in the Yorkshire Dales

Description

M.A. dissertation on hand-knitting in Yorkshire, written in two parts. The first, The Knitting Process, contains chapters on materials (wool: provenance and type; wool: processing - carding and combing, spinning, dyeing), implements (knitting needles, knitting sheaths or sticks), products and markets of the hand-knitting industry. The second part, The Knitters, has chapters on the historical development of the hand-knitting industry, the organisation of the industry and its social context, including sections on pay and poverty, hand-knitting in relation to pastoral agricultural concerns and lead mining, the hand-knitting industry and the employment of women. The final chapter covers the decline of the industry. A glossary of dialect words, recorded by other collectors, is included at the end of the dissertation. These words are connected with the knitting industry, and were collected in Dentdale, Swaledale and Wensleydale.

Metadata

Identifier qv8c4w32
IRN 409931
Class Mark LAVC/SRP/1/035
Level File
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/qv8c4w32
Collection(s) Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Category Archive
Parent Record Postgraduate Theses and Dissertations
Creator(s) Marsh, Penny
Date 1977
Size and Medium 57 unbound typed leaves.

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