From mysterious knitting needles to strange silhouettes: recreating historical clothing
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The Importance of Craft Experience in Reconstruction Projects
I was already a knitter myself before I became interested in the history of knitting. My advice is always to involve craft experts to do the labor because they're much better at it. Fulling is quite a good workout, and if you have any anger management issues, fulling is a really good therapeutic thing to do. And I have run fulling workshops where people have really gone for it with the fulling hammers. So that's been fun to do, and also for the experimental outcomes, it's been really interesting.
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