RE: #needleworkmonday | Stories from the Beginning
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you wrote very interesting. It turns out you have such a long experience of knitting. I was amazed that your dad showed you how to knit properly. usually men don't know how to do it.
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Well, I learned to knit a long time ago, but I have had huge gaps in between 🙂. My dad was quite amazing as a person, never quite what you would expect. He taught me many things, including sawing and hammering 😂. I used to hang around him so, sooner or later, he would be teaching me something.
I think quite a lot of men in England learned how to knit as children, especially working class men around the time of the 1939-1945 war. They would have been knitting for soldiers, as well as for people at home. And sea-faring men have often knitted. We have had a lot of sea-farers 🙂.
Wow!!!! I have never heard of this!!! I'm impressed!!! Denise @dswigle once published a photo of a Scotsman who was knitting. I thought that he was the only one of all men who knew how to do it. But it turns out this is far from the case! did you study sawing and hammering???? Wow!!!!!!
It's true, Tali! My grandfather knits, 3 of my brothers used to knit... men in Kilts are always knitting, when I go the the Scottish Highland Games.
Pretty cool?
Wow!!!!! just amazing!!!! in the culture where I grew up, knitting would humiliate a man in the eyes of others. it was believed that only women could do this
Knitting is less popular among men now, but in its heyday (1400-1900) knitting was an important economic activity and done by everyone. When it became industrialised, hand knitting was something that only rich women had time to do. Although poor children of both sexes were taught hand-knitting as a way to earn a living, and it was one of the accepted ways for single women to earn.
very interesting! thanks! yes, every culture has its roots and its history
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Hehe, you've been photographing exotic knitting men in the wild, Denise? 😍
It's like a lost history, isn't it?
The kilt wearing crowd often knit their own socks. :))
Indeed-history is lost so easily.
I just helped my dad when he was doing jobs around the house, I was six 😍