* 1908 THE STITCHERY ANNUAL - THE QUARTERLY SUPPLEMENT TO THE GIRLS OWN PAPER AND WOMAN'S MAGAZINE - FLORA KLICKMANN

ARIANE CRAFTS BOOK PREVIEW FLORA KLICKMANN 1918 HARDANGER AND CROSS-STITCH

 

Read now online Flora Klickmann book published in 1920 and uploaded by ARIANE CRAFTS

PILLOW LACE AND HANDWORKED TRIMMINGS, THE HOME ART SERIES BY FLORA KLICKMANN, 1920

Dear Blog and Pinterest Followers,

I uploaded this book dated 1920 to my blog so it can be read and shared worldwide.

Because not everyone enjoys kindle , even in desktop, our blog decided to share the book universally in an easy access , no registration required platform.

Enjoy and more to come,

Best wishes,

Ariane 

* FLORA KLICKMANN, ' NEEDLEWORK ECONOMIES' available online via The Project Gutenberg

 

The Project Gutenberg published the NEEDLEWORK ECONOMIES  by Flora Klickmann . The book was published in 1916 and yet 99 years later in 2015 , The Project Gutenberg published the book online giving everyone the opportunity to read and use the book for home economy projects.

The projects are for mending, altering, reproducing and creating clothes and household items. Most of the instructions are suitable for young women. 

My favourite projects are the two handbags below ,

Happy reading!

Best wishes,

Ariane

*Local history : Bromley high street, Historical figure who once lived in Sydenham and the Scottish ' Scotch Wool and Hosiery' Stores

 

Today I am reviewing the Handbook of Knitting and Crocheting by Scotch Wool and Hosiery Stores, an outlet for  "Greenock" Knitting Wools , over 350 branches owned by Fleming, Reid & Co. Ltd. , The Worsted Mills, Greenock.

When donating this item my choice of recipient will be the Glasgow City Archives . The reason being is that in this page of description of which donated items the institution accepts , is clear that priority will be given to documents relevant to the local history.

Though in the early 1900's Scotch Wool and Hosiery stores had a branch in Bromley high street, I don't see how local history projects would benefit from the possession of this item for display. Even considering that when journalist Flora Klickmann lived in Lower Sydenham she might have visited the stores several times,  the local cultural archives would not find it relevant as the products were not sourced here and Flora eventually moved to the country. 

She is a truly fascinating character in history , whose legacy to the world was not only feminism but the intellectual property consequent of her  tremendous creative capacity and teaching skills.

The fact that  her name is associated with the likes of Oscar Wilde, and yet she was at that difficult time for women full emancipation,. an entrepreneur and editor of magazines published throughout the United Kingdom, the Americas and occasionally the colonies, really is a strong indicative that this relatively obscure historical figure opened the doors for women who came after and made their own paths easier for women who followed.

Last Summer I reviewed a few of her magazines, inclusively one she edited following Oscar Wilde departure of the job, but this year we will be looking carefully at her Home Art Series.

The Scotch Wool and Hosiery Stores did not place any advertisement in the Home Art Series. The main sponsor was Peri Lusta Crochet owned by Jevons & Mellor  ( circa 1846) Wool Shop, Corporation Street, Birmingham and Barbour's Linen Threads owned by Wm., Barbour and Sons, Ltd, Lisburn, Ireland.

The purpose of the Scotch Wool and Hosiery Stores handbooks was to create a need to the consumer by providing patterns for men, children and women , while the purposes of Flora Klickmann Home Art Series was to educate the readers in the art of the needle and to share creative designs for household items.

Flora Klickmann also edited The Stitchery magazine. Though I reviewed a few issues last year I have some more to review this year.

Thanks to a purchase done via the Antique Collectables " Devon Archadia" I now own the first issue of the magazine Stitchery and manage to add two to my portfolio of " Flora Klickmann primary sources" .

As per last year indication by me to my blog readers, the history posts will be marked * in the beginning .  These posts will be for now intercalated with bag books reviews until we get fully in crochet gear.

Stay tuned,

Best wishes,

Ariane

* The Young Ladies Journal , May 1, 1870

Here is another journal I will be donating to the British National Library or the British Museum in a few years time.

Lost for words reading the online History projects such as the Queen's University Library project  who refer this magazine to be tailored to middle class women who were fair ( very white skin) and how certain items such as gloves were seen to be of middle class women who stayed at home but women forced to work because of husband's economic situation could use gloves to cover dark rough hands ( signs of housework and work outdoors) and how sun shades could be used not only to protect fair skins as disguise darkened skins by effect of working out of the home.

Would be pointless to advise historians to be inclusive in their history rather than ignore needlepoint cushions, tapestries and especially bedding embroidered by working women.

The idea that working women cannot have a life outside work is not only exclusivist but a reflexion of the person who writes the history work itself. My mother worked most her life as high school maths teacher and after work gave private tuition lessons from home , sometimes until 10 pm.

Please scroll down for the pictures and yes contemplate  Carl Wagner music composed especially for The Young Lady's Journal of May 1, 1870.

The Journal is a delight with so many instructions , not to speak of the fiction story and brief news and music partiture. 

Hope you enjoy my brief review.

Until next time, 

Best wishes,

Ariane

PS- Don't know if you had the chance to read The Watsons by Jane Austen? Well, it approaches this view of European darkened by the  sun as being less worst of consideration for marriage . But...but this was ages ago.... And certainly not related to women capacity or knowledge of embroidery , needlepoint, crochet etc. If its part of the culture of a country you will see it throughout different economic stratifications. For example ' Irish linen' and ' winter hook rugging' primitive or not...Are these middle class terms?Food for thought right?Have a fantastic day!

* THE LADY'S WORLD EMBROIDERY BOOK NO.3 , LONDON, 1886

This year I will be showing some of my books and magazines that date as early as from 1843.

I start with a magazine created in 1886 , THE LADY'S WORLD  .

This magazine was later renamed as THE WOMAN'S WORLD and hosted famous editors like the poet Oscar Wilde. 

Before we review this first item I would like to state that Oscar Wilde was not only one of the best poets in the History of Literature but he also was an intellectual who was violently arrested,sentenced to incarceration and publicly humiliated for his sexual orientation - at the time , private as it was,. illegal. Other fellow poets who were supposedly lynched because of his sexual orientation was Garcia Lorca.

Men like Oscar Wilde and Garcia Lorca , though non-straight never oppressed women, au contraire Oscar Wilde worked as editor of a magazine that voiced women in all their grace and glory. Me as blogger and my blog features many book reviews by men and as fully inclusive of all designers, I am also fully inclusive and respectful of people who died because of how God made them. So RIP Oscar Wilde. Now moving on...

The issues I own are all prior to Oscar Wilde joining the magazine. 

 If you wish to follow my blog posts reviews for these items ( which you can also find in places like the Met Museum) you can guide yourself by the titles that have * before the title. 

Today I start with one of a few of my unique items, a magazine dating back to 1886 THE LADY'S WORLD  BOOK No. 3.

Here are some pictures of my Issue 3 . Please scroll down to continue my review

The pictures rotated according to their own mood!My apologies but let's move on.

As a crafter I can tell you that though this magazine is way pre First World War, the only difference between crafters at the time and crafters today, like myself when I can, is that the fashion sense changed. My Facebooker crafters from Hungary, Russia, Brazil etc still do all these craft bases for clothes and garments. 

Would these women back to 1886 shy away from embroidery sewing machines? Possibly not, due to automation in consequence of higher demand  - remember that as per this magazine there were already several shops advertising and supplying many family households with ready-made embroidery and lace garments , bedding and lining.

What about crochet and knitting? The same applies as above: I would not crochet a CROCHET GOLF COAT WITH BASQUE as per presented on page 17 of the magazine I am reviewing today , but I would crochet other items I already crocheted for myself, as  a two metres blanket for my sofa. 

What about time spent and rentability? Due to sight loss concerns I am certain most crafters at the time like the one's of today would be aware of the damages causes to the sight by executing needlepoint during late night. But as then as today , we crafters have access to lenses amplifiers. Furthermore, women had mostly the weight of housework but at the time there were already househelpers and today we have machines and couples sharing housework tasks.

The common element I notice is that is still enjoyable to do our own items at our own time and that in itself is priceless and intemporal!

Hope you enjoyed my review and no need to remind me that I must hand my books to museums as obviously a great slice of my books are no longer available and would be more useful digitalised. Separation is painful but will take place - eventually :)

Until next time ,

Best wishes,

Ariane