These were just added this week to the Librarian's Index to the Internet. They look interesting.
Are You Wearing Woolies? Medieval Knitting, Nelbinding Annotated links to websites about period knitting. Includes sites about medieval Muslim knitting, Egyptian socks, hand-knit stockings from the 1500s, Viking-age yarnwork (nelbinding), and more. From SCAtoday.net, a website "offering news, information, and discussions ... to members of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA)." URL: http://scatoday.net/node/view/3765 LII Item: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/19290 Here to There Dept.: Stitches 2005 article on the Yarn Bus, "a fifteen-passenger van topped with three enormous balls of yarn and a pair of knitting needles the size of 9-irons," that shuttles passengers (free of charge) to and from Manhattan to the Flying Fingers yarn store in Irvington (Westchester County), New York. From the New Yorker magazine. Note: no photograph provided. URL: http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/index.ssf?050321ta_talk_collins LII Item: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/19284 /19292 Knitting for a Better World Annotated list of organizations and projects focused on knitting and crocheting for charitable causes. Includes knitting for premature infants, children in hospitals, domestic violence victims, chemotherapy patients, U.S. armed forces, humanitarian projects in other countries, and more. From a publisher of craft books. URL: http://www.interweave.com/knit/charities.asp LII Item: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/19286 V&A: Knitting This site features annotated images of knitted items from the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum in London, and additional features on knitting. Includes information about regional knitting in the British Isles and Ireland (such as Shetlands, Fair Isle, and Channel Islands), interviews with knitting designers, patterns from the 1940s, a list of knitting blogs, and related material. URL: http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/knitting LII Item: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/19293 Merry Luskin, Oakland CA Reference librarian and handspinner Great site: Librarians' Index to the Internet http://lii.org __________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
