Buried Knits and Sunken Ships // CasFri S6E04

In this week's Casual Friday, I have historical tidbits, I give you a tour through Volume 6 of Weldon's Practical Needlework, published in 1891, and I show you the projects I'll be working on for this year's Finish it February. Support me by buying me a coffee on Ko-fi! https://www.ko-fi.com/roxannerichardson My knitting designs: https://www.ravelry.com/designers/rox... My Ravelry project page for the sweater I'm wearing: https://ravel.me/Rox/kps SHOW NOTES TIDBIT #1 SHETLAND LACE Video on Shetland Lace knitters from the 1960s    • 1964: SHETLAND SHAWLS are more valuable th...   TIDBIT #2 SHETLAND WOOL FACTORY Video on Jamieson & Smith Wool Factory    • Video   TIDBIT #3 GUNNISTER MAN Fiber Nation podcast on the Gunnister Man https://www.interweave.com/fiber-nati... Piecework article on Gunnister Man: https://pieceworkmagazine.com/re-crea... Black and white image of the stocking: https://www.nms.ac.uk/search.axd?comm... Original article from 1954, with descriptions of all of the articles: https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/... TIDBIT #4 MARY ROSE SHIPWRECK Mary Rose Wikipedia article , https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_... Mary Rose museum https://maryrose.org/ Museum of London stockings https://collections.museumoflondon.or... Lucie Whitmore's blog post about the museum's Tudor knitted items: https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/dis... TIDBIT #5 WOOLEN HATS AT THE RIJKS Two sets of items containing lots of knitting and knitting-related items https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksst... https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksst... FINISH IT FEBRUARY Casual Friday Playlist:    • Casual Friday Podcasts   Scroll to the first few episodes of each year (“season”) to find the episodes that explain Finish it February. Finish it February chat thread: https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/rox-r... 0:00 Introduction 0:23 TIDBIT #1 Shetland Lace 1:19 TIDBIT #2 Shetland Wool Factory 4:50 TIDBIT #3 Gunnister Man 15:06 TIDBIT #4 Mary Rose Shipwreck 19:15 TIDBIT #5 Woolen Hats at the Rijks 20:46 Weldon’s Vol 4 29:56 Finish it February If you have questions about this video, or suggestions for future videos, please let me know down in the comments or on social media. Rox Rocks Ravelry group: http://www.ravelry.com/groups/rox-rocks IG:   / roxmpls   Twitter:   / roxmpls