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I was just curious if there was any documentation of machine-knitted gloves from the CW period. I know there were socks and shirts, but I have no clue about gloves.
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Phil Graf
Can't some of our good friends send us some tobacco? We intend to "hang up our stockings." if they can't send tobacco, please send us the seed, and we will commence preparing the ground; for we mean to defend this place till h-ll freezes over, and then fight the Yankees on the ice.
Private Co. A, Cook's Reg't, Galveston Island. -
Re: Machine knit gloves?
Dear Phil:
That makes two of us. I've never heard of any machine knit gloves in our period. Knitting machines had been invented, and were being used for socks and shirts, but I've not heard of any that had been specialized enough to make the fingers, nor have I heard of factories making the body of the glove by machine and then sending the fingers out for hand-knit piecework finishing.
But you never know in this hobby -- someone might have the documentation or discover the documentation for them......
Sincerely,
Karin Timour
Period Knitting -- Socks, Hats, Balaclavas
Atlantic Guard Soldiers' Aid Society
Email: Ktimour@aol.com
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