From: ag1v+@andrew.cmu.edu (Andrea B. Gansley-Ortiz)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Knitting - Synopsis
Date: 21 Dec 92 17:12:06 GMT
Organization: Information Networking Institute, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Good gentles, I greet you well. Two ladies asked me to send a synopsis
of the information I gathered from the net. Unfortunately I've lost one
lady's address. I hope that she, and others will find this information
interesting.

With each note is the SCA and mundane name of the giver was well as her/his
e-mail address.

Esmeralda

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Irena Turnau's article "Diffusion of Knitting in Medieval Europe" to be
found in _Cloth and Clothing in Medieval Europe:  Essays in Memory of
Professor F. M. Carus-Wilson._  Studies in Textile History 2.  N. B.
Harte and K. G. Ponting, eds.  London:  Heinemann, 1983, pp. 368-389. 

This article discusses knitting throughout our period, including mention
of such artifacts as "[t]he knitted leggings of Bishop Konrad von
Sternberg (who was buried in Worms in 1192)"  (Turnau, p. 380).  There
is also reference to knitted liturgical gloves from before the turn of
the millenium. 

Pagan le Chaunster
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Jennifer Geard                         bloodthorn@sloth.equinox.gen.nz
Christchurch, New Zealand
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I know the perfect person for information.  Maestra Agnese Canigiano
(Eileen McCabe) is a laurel in knitting who does wondrous research and
execution.  (She's got a set of knit stockings done on such narrow gauge
they're amazing.)  If her e-mail address is still good, it's
agnese@access.digex.com.  

Catrin
Kathryn Gandek <KGANDEK%MITVMC.BITNET@BITNET.CC.CMU.EDU>
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Agnese can be reached at
Eileen McCabe
c/o Tom Olsen
PO Box 2013
Havelock NC  28532
919-223-6238

Her old address, which should be okay, or at least have forwarding, is:
1322 Huntover Dr., Odenton MD  21113  410-674-BABE and her ex-roomie,
Lady Keilyn FitzWarin, is still living there.  Eileen is shuttling back
and forth for the moment.

Agnese is the most knowledgable person I can think of for period
knitting info, although Ilaine de Cameron or Roen Dentilliere could
probably also help.  Let me know if you'd like their addresses.

Caitlin
waks@world.std.com (Jane Waks)
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	knitting is indeed period, though late. If you like knitting hats and
gloves you are in luck, there are several examples of each of these
extant. Hand-knit stockings are the perfect accessory but if you are
going to do them in the proper fineness, you will be at it a while :)

Ilaine de Cameron
ilaine@panix.com (Liz Stokes)
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The one you want to write to about knitting is Lady Shahira Abdul Samad.
 She submitted a research paper on the history of knitting to Ice
Dragon.  Her address is: Caroline Tomczak, 1476 Main Street, Buffalo New
York 14209.

Lord Dagonell Collingwood of Emerald Lake
salley@niktow.cs.canisius.edu (David P. Salley)
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there's a fun book called "A History of H and Knitting" by Richard Rutt.
 He discusses several different methods of holdi ng the needles and has
many pictures of "period" knitted articles.  Sorry I don 't have the
ISBN but the publisher is Batsford, London and it is copyrighted 19 87. 
The call number at Farrell Library here at Kansas State University is
TT82 0.r84 1987b.

Beth Schreiber / Lisbet <BETHS@KSUVM.KSU.EDU>
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