Knitting Stockings in Wales-A Domestic Craft
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5969997 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Minwel Tibbott, S Minwel Tibbott (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 61-73 |
| Publication date | 1978-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Folk Life (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0430-8778 • E-ISSN: 1759-670X |
| Publisher | Maney Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/flk.1978.16.1.61 |
| OpenAlex | W1985226040 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Traditional skill in knitting stockings and its contribution to the domestic economy in most parts of rural Wales during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, cannot be ignored. Indeed, the domestic stocking industry was a notable feature of the economic life of many districts, whereby men and children joined forces with the womenfolk to knit stockings—not only for their own families but also to sell and thus gain a source of income. Writing of Bala, in Merioneth, as a centre of the knitting industry, the Revd John Evans states that 'knitting being the common employment of the neighbourhood, for both sexes of all ages, even the men frequently take up the needles and assist the female, in labour, where the chief support of the family is derived
Art · Craft · Visual arts · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Medicine · Optometry
| Citations per year | 0.04 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1979 - 1981 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |