Archaeological Textiles Review No.60: The Knitting Issue

- 141 pages
- Paperback
- 21cm x 29cm
- Illustrated throughout with photographs, diagrams and drawings
- Black and white with some colour photographs and pictures
- Published in 2018

The diamond issue of the Archaeological Textiles Review is devoted to the study of Early Modern knitted items. It includes articles on two 16th century caps (including the earliest known example of Danish knitwork), 16th century wool stockings, 17th century silk stockings, shipwrecked items including mittens from the Netherlands and Sweden, and a proposal for a new protocol for recording evidence for knitting. The volume contains 99 pages devoted to knitted fragments and garments with many colour photographs and detailed specifications such as gauge, yarn and fibre for each item.  This volume is a major outcome of Jane Malcolm-Davies’ Knitting in Early Modern Europe (KEME) project funded by a Marie Skłodowska Curie Research Fellowship (grant agreement 656748) courtesy of the European Commission. The collaborating authors who have contributed to this very special issue are:

Ruth Gilbert – reviews published evidence for Early Modern knitting
Susanne Lervad – contributes to terminology for studying knitwork
Helena Lundin – reports knitted items from the c17th Kronan shipwreck
Jane Malcolm-Davies – introduces the issue and proposes a protocol for reporting Early Modern knitwork
Rosalind Mearns – discusses crowdsourcing for experimental archaeology to reconstruct knitted items
Lesley O’Connell Edwards – discusses c16th stockings in the Museum of London
Sylvie Odstrčilová – surveys c17th silk stockings in the Czech Republic
Maj Ringgaard – reveals the remains of two Early Modern knitted caps found in Denmark
Annemarieke Willemsen – reports mittens found in a c17th Dutch shipwreck