No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting

Anne L. Macdonald; Read By Kymberly Dakin

ISBN 10: 0979607337 ISBN 13: 9780979607332

Publisher: Knitting Out Loud, 2008

Synopsis

Drawn from diaries, letters and personal reminiscences, No Idle Hands tells an intimate and sometimes hair-raising story of hand knitting in America from Colonial times onward. Women knit through the hardships of covered wagon travel across the West. They knit to save their husbands and sons from freezing to death on battlefields. Shell-shocked men knit to save their sanity in hospitals during both world wars. No Idle Hands documents the importance knitting has had in American life.

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About the Author

Historian Anne L. Macdonald, the former head of the History Department at the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C. is also the author of Feminine Ingenuity: Women and Invention in America (1994) and Perrot: The Story of a Library (2006).

About this edition

• Publisher: Knitting Out Loud
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0979607337
• ISBN 13: 9780979607332
• Binding: Audio CD