No Idle Hands
Subtitle: The Social History of American Knitting
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: April 7, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780345362537
Subjects: General; Needlework - Knitting; Sociology - General; History / General; Sociology; History; Knitting; Social aspects; United States
First sentence: The Mayflower foremothers' busily knitting on deck in route to the New World creates a picturesque scene, but there is no recorded proof that it's authentic, a notsurprising omission since knitting was so intrinsic to daily life that few remarked about it in journals, diaries or letters.