Weird Victorian Knitting Patterns (did people make these?)

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@EngineeringKnits Месяц назад

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@binglemarie42 Месяц назад

The split sock is what's worn in traditional Japanese dress, maybe that pattern was a result of orientalism?

@quietcorvidae Месяц назад

I was thinking that too! They look just like :)

@Lady_dromeda Месяц назад

And the only acceptable way to wear socks with sandals 😅 (only they aren’t sandals exactly, theres a few different styles, with different names and I can’t remember the names 🤦🏻‍♀️)

@linettemiller878 Месяц назад

That's a good thought! I was wondering if it was designed to help with hammertoes or blisters or something

@mylena3086 Месяц назад

From what I know there is a pair of socks from Scandinavia (Denmark I think) that was made with either nalbinding or sprang (or both as they were often used in combination and has the toe split As far as I remember they are dated to about 700 But being a history nerd I totally see what you guys mean as Orientalism is something that pops up regularly Also as the people vikingr-ing were going quite far as to the Baltic/Eastern what we call Europe today- Region maybe there were some ideas for garments that were adapted from even further East Or maybe it was one of these incidents where people independently invented similar things around the globe

@bethusala Месяц назад

Possible Canadian pop-culture reference? In Canada we used to have a children's show called The Big Comfy Couch, all the characters were clowns. Auntie Macassar was a supporting character who would send Loonette (main character) postcards from all the amazing places she travelled. Thanks to your video I assume her name may have been a reference to the antimacassar item itself, which might actually be featured as an item on the couch itself.

@melimsah Месяц назад

That show made it down to the states too! (Depended on local PBS stations offerings but still). No lie, when I try to knit, I still think of a story Granny Garbanzo told of a little girl who hated knitting but then accidentally said "Knit one, twirl-- I mean purl two" and decided after knitting a row, she would twirl twice, and that made it fun. xD

@bethusala Месяц назад

Love that it was shown in the U.S. too, I always assume that Canadian shows rarely get seen outside of Canada. I like Major Bedhead delivering mail on a unicycle. I watched way too much 90's/early 2000's kids shows because I babysat/nannied through that era. I may have start teaching my daughter it as knit and twirl too, maybe she'll be more interested in knitting.

@Lady_dromeda Месяц назад

I loved that show. I recently saw a double walled tumbler with a BCC design on it from a small business, and I was all set to buy it until I learned that the shipping was more than the product itself . I don’t have the money to be able to justify that. If it did, I definitely would have bout the cup.

@WitchOracle Месяц назад

I loved the Big Comfy Couch!!

@akashanumberfive199 Месяц назад

I remember this show as a kid and I am American. Had no idea

@pippaseaspirit4415 Месяц назад

Baby reins are a very practical way of stopping your toddler from running off! Everyone used them when I was young.

@Lady_dromeda Месяц назад

Mine was a bracelet like thing with an cable like old phone cords 😂 my daughters was a plush monkey backpack

@cleverpaws9035 Месяц назад

I see them a lot where I live, sometimes the reigns, sometimes a back pack in between the harness and the lead, but almost always an energetic 12 to 18 months old wearing them.

@ZimVader-0017 5 дней назад

@Lady_dromeda I had that one too! 😂 The bracelet thing.

@KGlena-kx1df 3 дня назад

And sometimes they had clips so the adult could go hands free 😂

@jwolfe1209 Месяц назад

The very padded baby hat is actually something that would be useful for little ones just learning to walk. If they took a tumble it would protect them from getting injured from hitting furniture or the floor. They still make similar items, but they look more like a helmet than a hat

@user-ox9mb7jg4n Месяц назад

Antimacassars were made and used on chair and sofa backs long past Victorian times. I remember seeing crochet patterns from the 40's & 50's for them. The piece for the chair back was usually accompanied by 2 other rectangular pieces, for the armrests. My grandmother crocheted hers from cotton to use on all of her wool-upholstered furniture. Along with protecting a chair back fabric from oily hair products, it also protected the upholstery fabric from wear and tear. She considered the pieces for the armrests especially important because the armrests can get easily soiled and worn from people's hands.

@Lady_dromeda Месяц назад

I read that they were for protecting the furniture from hair pomades and powders.

@studymusicforkaren Месяц назад

My grandmother had them still in the 1990s!

@velvety2006 Месяц назад

I actually have a couple full cover ones for my couch, my cat scratched it to the point the corners were pretty ugly but she does not like to scratch it now the covers are on it and they are knitted. the fun part is i can pick colors so if i want a different couch i just put on a different cover lol

@Vanbedda Месяц назад

The absolute flex of pulling out that STACK of antique pattern books. I'm so jelly but also really happy for you 😂

@quietcorvidae Месяц назад

Those bifurcated socks look a lot like tabi (Japanese socks worn with geta (traditional wooden sandals) as part of traditional dress-- kimono, yukata, haori, hakama, etc.)! I know in the 1800s there was a really big obsession with Japanese/East Asian culture, especially in regards to kimono so I wonder if that's where the bifurcated socks came from! Like flip-flops, the hanao (the strap on the geta or zori shoes) goes between your big toe and the rest of your toes

@genier7829 Месяц назад

Fun episode! The second pronunciation is correct, with the emphasis on the 'cas' syllable. Per my grandmother born in 1897 whose mother insisted on making many useless crafts according to her family.

@k06kw02 Месяц назад

I wonder if the child harness was used like modern child harnesses, where the kid wears the harness and the parents have the other end of the leash. They are controversial, but are intended to keep really young children (like 2 and 3) from bolting away from their parents and into busy streets. Considering that 19th century streets were chaotic, it would be practical. I really hope the whip was just a toy.

@kirbyw.3451 Месяц назад

Hobby horses were really popular, so I'm hoping the whip is to use while playing with the hobby horse.

@songindarkness Месяц назад

I was wondering that too. My mum had “reins” for me (as they are called in the UK). I know they are controversial but I think they just seem sensible to me as I was apparently the kind of child that would just wander off otherwise, probably into traffic. 😅😅😅

@heltych Месяц назад

you could’t whip anything with a knitted whip even if you tried, it was most probably just an accessory 😅

@robintheparttimesewer6798 Месяц назад

I know that they are controversial but I used them on my oldest in our unfenced yard. She was 18 months and the second was a premie. She would have left if I hadn’t!

@Lady_dromeda Месяц назад

I used to have a monkey with straps for my daughter with a leash 😅 never used it much though, always forgot it and then it got lost. Now shes 5 and shouldnt need a leash but still kind of does😂

@resourcedragon Месяц назад

Toe socks actually date back to at least Roman times. A typical toe sock from the ancient world was in nice, bright happy stripes and the division for the toe was to allow the wearer to, um, well, _wear it with sandals!_ 😆 These early toe socks were generally made with nalbinding. I've seen a photograph of one red and white striped number, taken from an early Christian grave in Egypt that looks knitted, rather than nalbound. However, we don't have firm evidence of knitting until somewhat later in history.

@evelyngorfram9306 Месяц назад

The Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" has a major plot point involving a bell pull. When I first read the story as a kid, I had a heck of a time trying to figure out what the non-murder-mystery-related use of such a thing woudd be.

@woolgatheringfran Месяц назад

The toe socks remind me of the Japanese tabi socks! I wonder if there is any correlation between the two. The tabi socks actually have a really long history as Japanese people have been wearing flip-flop-like wooden sandals (called "geta") for centuries.

@loribackes9321 Месяц назад

I just read a nonfiction book, Nothing Daunted, about to young women who traveled to the Colorado mountains in 1916 to teach in a brand new school. One incident mentioned the 'over sock', for lack of a better term, that they put over their shoes to avoid slipping on the snow and ice. I immediately thought about your video where you knitted and experimented with them. So, proof that they really were used. Fun.

@lianapalumbo8457 Месяц назад

My Nonna made antimacassars for her lounge and they were beautiful. She was an incredible fibre artist. I have antique tapestry bell pulls and one was made by a man because they have their names embroidered on the back material lining 😊

@nanicruz2656 Месяц назад

Would love to see a series where you tackle vintage "amigurumi" patterns! Knitting or crochet!

@amethystanne4586 13 дней назад

For the coffee strainer, I think the coffee used during Victorian times may have not been as finely ground as the coffee is now.

@alittlebitofkatie Месяц назад

When you were talking about men's swimwear and then moved onto the "sleeve holder", I honestly thought that it was some sort of euphemistic term until you explained what it was actually for 😂

@AnidHarker Месяц назад

I'm personally baffled by the sleeve holder because I was always taught to just hold my sleeves with my hands when I put jackets on? Did people truly not think of that? Or is it one of those disability aids that look baffling at first glance because i'm able bodied so I can't really imagine needing it? Tbh I wouldn't expect a victorian publication to casually have such specific disability rep

@JustSaralius Месяц назад

Could also be for sleeves that you button at the cuff, meaning you can't grab it as it is just too tight to bring down to your hand.

@songindarkness Месяц назад

I’m guessing Victorian sleeves were probably very fitted to the arm and not stretchy as they wouldn’t have had jersey type fabric so I imagine you couldn’t just hold them down.

@liska320 Месяц назад

It’s called practical as opposed to theoretical knitting, I think. This means applied knowledge, not just theoretical. Like Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Practical Reason, which may or may not have been super practical ☺️

@hiwakoo Месяц назад

Last winter we Hand „Blitzeis“ and I could not get out of my car because the ground was frozen! I took of my socks und wore ehem over my shoes. No problem with slipping on the walkway, highly recomment, it´s not good for the socks though😂

@xingcat Месяц назад

Antimacassars remind me of the Eddie Murphy movie "Coming to America," where one of the characters uses something in his hair called "Soul Glow," that is always staining the furniture, lol.

@pantherzrule1 Месяц назад

A lot of people have mentioned the toe sock looks like a tabi sock from Japanese traditional wear, but one of my knitting books reproducing medieval Norwegian wear has a similar sock too! For wearing in your bed.

@doris1826 Месяц назад

I would REALLY love to see the little giraffe in a video! What fun!

@JustSaralius Месяц назад

Please do all the animal knits! I so wanna see what they would look like! 😊

@Lady_dromeda Месяц назад

She should do the emotional support chicken! Or the duck that Claude did because it is a vintage pattern.

@moonargentum Месяц назад

That sock with the separate big toe is interesting! The 1880s had a rage for Japonisme, which influenced everything from art to interior design to fashion, so it might be inspired by Japanese tabi socks? Or it is something in the spirit of reform clothing - I can see some Victorian arguing that toes need more freedom of movement for ~health~ reasons!

@999Giustina Месяц назад

Some of my Asian friends still use antimacassars in their living rooms and cars. Important to keep the furniture clean!

@LisaOuwersloot Месяц назад

The really ott baby bonnets were also to protect the head if baby fell. They had a light pillow-ish layer underneath.

@amandajayne2619 Месяц назад

Slippers over boots ... will try this next winter. Driveway has a slant and more than a few times I fell on my butt.

@songindarkness Месяц назад

I love this video and would love to see more weird patterns so please make a series! I’m also excited to find out what an antimacassar is - L.M. Montgomery of Anne of Green Gables fame mentioned it in her books. So I gathered it was something like a cover or small blanket but didn’t know the original purpose. I’ll have to make the overshoes as slipping is a real hazard in the winter. And the Victorian toys are so cute! Please direct to some patterns? Thanks for a fascinating video! ❤

@catherinegoser4817 Месяц назад

I like the egg blanket idea!

@CatKnipND Месяц назад

The oil protector reminds me of the scene in Coming to America where the family sits on the couch and when they stand up, they’ve left oil marks on the wall from the product in their hair

@TalkingAmerican Месяц назад

That's the memory I got as well.

@KaliTragus Месяц назад

That giraffe is so cute!

@louisalowry6229 Месяц назад

Oh my goodness - I need oil protectors for everything at the moment. Chihuahua has an ear infection and the medication is oily (keeps it own the skin) coats everything and gets everywhere!!

@amethystanne4586 Месяц назад

In one of the Weldon’s books, I found a knitted pattern……… the first pattern you showed was what I was going to talk about. The hand-knitted coffee filter is on my “Future Projects List”. I had thought to use Aunt Lydia’s #10 thread, but hadn’t decided the size of needles. The antimacassars patterns I have used as doilies.

@agimagi2158 Месяц назад

I bet the sleeve holder was a crochet pattern so you could make a gift for those for whome gift shopping is very tricky

@mylena3086 Месяц назад

This version of 'its corn' hit different 😂😂

@laurabuche5191 9 часов назад

in Argentina we still use coffee strainers made of (machine)knitted cotton fabric. We call them medias (socks)

@claireloub Месяц назад

My parents still have lace antimacassars on their chairs! You pronounce it with the stress on the "ca" syllable, ie. anti-ma-CA-ssar, like the 2nd way you tried to pronounce it at 3:06

@wawawawatusi Месяц назад

Not a knitter but I could've watched much more of this! Love the dive into primary sources like these, and seeing the patterns recreated - please make some!

@Lady_dromeda Месяц назад

Her videos are so addicting, ive literally gone back to the oldest videos so I can watch again when im impatient for new videos 😅 I like to hear that she appeals to non knitters as well. I mainly crochet, but want to knit more, it just takes so long.

@kida4star Месяц назад

Knit bicycling tights sounds interesting. Would be interesting to see

@PaulaWood-mu1du Месяц назад

Wow! Weldon's was a much craved item my Gran let me have 40 years ago! 😍

@aninocentangel Месяц назад

I’ve seen something similar to the baby boa but it wasn’t worn around the neck, it was more like a detachable hood edging with long tails to keep their upper body warm and cute. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@sujammaz 29 дней назад

how could i have thought i'd be the first to mention japanese tabi 🙃 kudos to the community i guess 💕 at least nobody said how important foot posture is for overall health. you basically want arches with sixpacks, in order to prevent all kinds of long-term leg and back issues. similar to lactose-free cuisine and the deep squat, split-toe footwear is one of those things asian cultures treasure for good reason.

@YarrowNjune Месяц назад

A corn bag could be a bottle holder

@RebeccaInEurope Месяц назад

You had me at the thumbnail!!! This was so fascinating

@inchb.wigglet640 Месяц назад

This is a great video! I would love to know how you found so many interesting men's patterns. Most historic pattern books I can find don't have much for guys.

@penihavir1777 Месяц назад

Thanks for sharing the interesting items!

@davonnac2413 Месяц назад

I loved watching this! Can’t wait for your next video!

@imhottequilabrown Месяц назад

Missed you. :) I'm glad you're back!

@katherinemeakin1647 Месяц назад

I would love to make victorian crochet toys. Your elephant is so cute 🐘, but I can't find any patterns anywhere. Have you got any suggestions? Thank you 😊

@SweatyFlowerCollector Месяц назад

The toe sock made me immediately think that it may help prevent blisters as that’s frequently why modern hikers wear toe socks??? Some other very neat responses though!

@sharronsimard2742 Месяц назад

I love your videos. I love old patterns as well.

@Teerae11 Месяц назад

That was interesting !! Ya like you i wish they wud of explained the use or history of items , Thanks for sharing this !! ❤ It

@mylena3086 Месяц назад

I love how the ancestors had the same little problems (and the solutions)we have today Like riding a bike and putting on special tights (I got some thermo leggins and they make such a difference in comfort) or being annoyed by sleeves riding up underneath jackets 😂 I admire how they were like 'alright, that's enough sensory issues, I'll come up with a special knit design' What a vibe

@jessicapearcelamothe8484 Месяц назад

I would be curious to see a longer video (or a live chat) where you flip through these collections. I like to see your favourites, but I’m wondering what else is in there!

@CharleRaeCafe Месяц назад

This was a fun video, I find it so interesting to look back at the things that were once typical and are now all but forgotten ...^_^...

@jonaclausson6698 Месяц назад

When i was younger we had icy rain and i needed to go out. My mother recomended to wear socks over my shoes against slipping, but i said no ... fell very badly and broke my hand ... lesson learned

@mylena3086 Месяц назад

I'll keep that anti slip oversock idea in mind and will tell everyone

@moonbasket Месяц назад

That knit speedo sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. Maybe if it had drawstrings around the legs, but knitting stretches when wet. I can't imagine the coverage would be very good. 😅

@highnoon9333 Месяц назад

Hi EK- love all your videos! Are you going to make any more "Call the Midwife Knits" videos? they're actually what got me interested in the show!

@Lady_dromeda Месяц назад

The toe sock pattern seems like it would make most sense in a Japanese knitting book, in my opinion. I don’t think sandals were a thing in”typical” clothing of that time, and doesn’t make sense (to me) if worn with closed toed shoes/boots.

@user-uh1wv1co7h Месяц назад

About the sock with the big toe separating it from the rest of the toes. In Japan this is the most common of sock worn with thonged slippers and thonged sandals worn in the rice paddies. I wonder if the design in your book had a Japanese influence.

@LittleGlowfly42 Месяц назад

I NEED the pineapple bag 😍

@wycohibito Месяц назад

I love the corn bag.

@catherinebates3050 Месяц назад

Your second attempt at saying antimacassar is correct. AntimaCASSar. I am old enough for both my grandmother's to have used them. Men were still using lots of greasy hair products like Brilliantine and Brylcream during the 1950s and 1960s.

@joyatodd Месяц назад

Weldon's must have come in a variety of editions. Mine is a soft cover and I don't think that it has all the soft toys.

@cherylrosbak4092 Месяц назад

The face on that toy cat looks more like a Tasmanian Devil😄 Those overshoes look a lot like the slippers my grandmother made.

@devinohara1009 Месяц назад

TBH i would love the speedo pattern to make it!

@caragarcia2307 Месяц назад

My grandfather put oil on his scalp even though he hardly had hair. He did have sensitive skin so maybe it was for that. My grandmother kept embroidered clothes for his rocking chair that she always starched and ironed.

@yazdhenab. Месяц назад

About baby clothing back in the eras where the book was written. I guess it's for rich babies who didn't run everywhere, play in mud, etc.

@linettemiller878 Месяц назад

How long is the boa? Because at the right size that could be a great teether. And come to think of it, my daughter has a toy that is literally a skein of my yarn that's hopelessly tangled... So maybe it would be a hit anyway!

@harbartje5171 Месяц назад

Can somebody help me find the video on the over-shoes? :)

@catherinebates3050 Месяц назад

Sorry about the incorrect apostrophe. Autocorrect did it@

@bethholness5153 Месяц назад

Toe sock... gout maybe?

@user-ox9mb7jg4n Месяц назад

If you want a reusable washable coffee filter, sew one from a tightly woven cotton muslin fabric.

@katebowers8107 Месяц назад

an-tee-mah-KASS-er

@thisismyname3328 Месяц назад

Oh my word, am I the first?? Hello Engineering Knits!!

@user-wg4qp3pt8b Месяц назад

Can you keep the camera on the items while u r talking about them. Less you, more item please. Interesting

@Mihier Месяц назад

Traurig ist, dass du dich über die Menschen vergangener Tage mit diesem Video respektlos lustig machst. Und das du zwar viele schöne Dinge vergangener Tage kopierst - von der dmaligen Zeit, den Menschen und den Zusamnenhängen - leider gar keine Ahnung hast. Fiel mir schon öfter unangenehm auf. Es ist etwas beschämend.

@sujammaz 29 дней назад

och komm schon, sei nicht so bitter ❤

@Mihier 14 дней назад

@@sujammaz Bin ich nicht 😅 Ich hoffte in diesem Video für mich mal wieder was aufschlussreiches zu sehen - bin ja Optimist. Stattdessen bekam ich einen I-Punkt auf den Eindruck der sich bereits seit längerem in mir breit machte ^^