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Mrs. Stone Recommends: Books you can buy from Amazon.Com Click on the links to learn more! Historical Knitting Books Click Here for Historical Clothing Books No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting 
This text is a must have for learning about who knitted, what was knitted and how during the history of our country. Very much recommended! And I am so glad to see it back in print. A History of Hand Knitting 
This is the most comprehensive and well documented history on hand knitting. Long out of print, but now back with us. You really need a copy of this in you knitting library if you do historical knitting. Folk Socks: The History & Techniques of Handknitted Footwear. 
If you knit socks and stockings, whether historical or not, you NEED this book. She has a wonderful collection of a wide variety of heel and toe types that appear in various places throughout the world. She has great pictures of historical socks, and modern patterns based on these garments. It's worth it just for the pictures and the heels and toes catalog. Traditional Knitted Lace Shawls... 
This is a great book for people just starting to
knit lace. It has a great collection of lacy stitches, contains a number
of shawl patterns with the patterns both charted and by text descriptions.
If you are an experienced lace knitter, you might find this a bit simple,
but this was the book that got me brave enough to start working lace patterns.
Lace from the Attic: A Victorian Notebook of Knitted Lace Patterns. 
This book are patterns from a Victorian woman's knitting notebook. Great resource for the person who loves Victorian patterns! This is a nice collection of traditional cabled-type
stitches used in fisherman's sweaters in the UK. The author notes which
patterns were supposed to be from which areas, although I am not sure about
the true historicity of that concept. The gansey sweater is a child
of the 19th
century, and it's a nice book to get started in
learning the knitting.
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