Items used in the 'Titanic' display in April at the Wild Rose Antique Club Show and Sale
Crochet, silk and kid gloves from before 1918.
Wristlets or Pulse Warmers as advertised in the Sears Roebuck Catalogue
Here is a pattern for Wristlets from
the Columbia Book of Yarns 1901. Columbia Yarns 155 Wristlets Knit Material - Knitting Yarn, 1/2 hank, 3 Steel Knitting Needles No. 15. Instructions: Cast on 56 stitches, 2 right and 2 left, until you have
the desired length, then finish with a crochet edge around the wrister.
And from ‘How to Use Florence Knitting Silk’ copyright
1881 and copied by the University of Southhampton Library as a pdf.
I was inspired by a Bears Brand pattern for my first ‘wristlets’,
more like gauntlets! I used the stitch pattern but that was all. Started to
run out of yarn and decided to add fingers after all.
In the interest of wanting to knit something vintage…I used this
pattern from an early 1940’s Vogue pattern book #15 (I couldn’t find a date, just
going by the clothing and styling of the models).
Using Qiviuk yarn, the stitch pattern is a twisted rib
and makes the fingers twist weirdly! The plastic glove holder is too big. They
fit the recipient just fine.
Design decisions for the second pair of Qiviuk gloves.
Again hoping to follow a vintage pattern, I choose one from the book “A Stitch
in Time” Vintage Knitting Patterns 1930 – 1959 Vol 2. Originally a pattern from
Weldon’s Knitwear Leaflet No B1249 from the early 1950s.
Determined to follow a pattern, I made up the stitch
swatch, figured out my gauge to fit my hand, and proceeded to knit. It called
for a double moss stitch, for some reason I used a stitch directory and not the
pattern. My stitch swatch is not the same as their pattern which calls for K1
P1 and not K2 P2 etc.
Here is a vintage glove display piece from the early 1950s.
Orange gloves are hard to find.
Another pair of wristlets completed in time for the first
snow!
