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Knitting, Unfinished

Object/Artifact

2” ball of z2s soft white cotton thread with 4 double pointed steel knitting needles, one loose and the other three still inserted in a 2” long tubular form, probably a stocking since it has a 1/2” simple hem finish worked around the end. There is a strange section near the needles that looks like it wants to be a design— but failed. The knitting is of rather uneven quality: a child’s work, abandoned?2) 4 knitting needles.

G98.087

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

1850

knitting

stocking

unfinished

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