No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting

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Ballantine Books, 1988 - Crafts & Hobbies - 484 pages
An historian and lifelong knitter, Anne Macdonald now expertly guides readers on a revealing tour of the history of knitting in America. In No Idle Hands Macdonald considers how the necessity -- and the pleasure -- of knitting has shaped women's lives.

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Colonial Knitters
3
Knitting for Liberty
26
Knitting in the Circle of Domesticity
44
Copyright

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Historian Anne L. MacDonald challenged the stereotype that women are mechanically inert in her book, "Feminine Ingenuity: Women and Invention in America."

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