Title: No idle hands : the social history of American knitting /
Authors: Macdonald, Anne L., 1920-
Publisher: Ballantine Books,
Year: 1988
Subjects: Knitting Social aspects United States History.
Contents: Colonial Knitters -- Knitting for Liberty -- Knitting in the Circle of Domesticity -- Westward Knit! -- Knitting for the Blue -- Knitting for the Gray -- Mid-Century Knitters -- Sporty Victorian Knitters -- Old Knitters in New Roles -- Oh, Say Can You Knit -- For Sammy? -- Men and Children for Sammy, Too -- Flappers Versus the "Old-Fashioned Knitters" -- The Thirties Knitting Craze -- The Forties: Knitting in War and Peace -- Knitting from A to Z: Argyles to Zimmermann -- Knitting Now and WhitherKnit?.