Five seventeenth-century European silk garments and mitts in The Met reveal where a museum explicitly records seamless knitting and where only date and fibers are known. Five Public Domain object photographs with individual sources.
Five nineteenth-century Met gloves and mittens reveal the difference between documented knitting and photographed textile surfaces. Compare five Public Domain images, precise source records and a Smithsonian hand-knitted pair.
Five National Gallery works trace knitting in American art from a family portrait to a motion study and lithograph, with original records and public-domain images.
The Met’s Mexican beadwork: two knitted bags, one probably knitted reticule, and two technique comparisons. Five public-domain photos.
Trace Schaffhauser Wolle through its 1868 business split, 1912 move, 1953 trade-fair stand, poster campaigns and 1991 closure using museum and archive records.
Are Madeira’s pointed wool carapuça and knitted earflap cap the same object? Two museum records, an 1882 travel account and five licensed photographs separate fibre, technique and changing dress.
Read Te Papa’s soldier doll and 1915 raffle records with care: a knitted cap, other sewn components, West Coast fundraising, and five clearly labelled AI concept images linked to the originals.
Five public-domain museum works trace the image of knitting in French art from Denon to Morisot, while separating artistic choices from evidence of lived practice.
Five Archives of Ontario photographs place a knitting scene beside other GECO workers’ activities. What do the 1943 records prove, and what remains unknown?
Five Rijksmuseum records show knitting in two paintings, two prints and a carte-de-visite. Read the images and the limits of what they prove.