The Stocking Knitting Industry of Later Sixteenth-Century Norwich.
Knitted garments became increasingly common throughout the sixteenth century in England, and it has been estimated that the production of stockings alone occupied at least 90,000 knitters at the end of the century. Knitting as an economic process in England has been little studied in this period. Th...
| Published in: | Textile History Vol. 52; no. 1/2; pp. 144 - 165 |
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