Free Vintage Knitting Patterns

[chenrezig]

Found these purely by accident, well actually, for some reason I felt inclined to search big museums for anything to do with Knitting, and I came across the one for the Victoria and Albert Museum .. I seem to have hit the jackpot though most of the patterns are in 3 and 4 ply wool ... They can be downloaded and saved as a Word document or a PDF file.

The oddest one I think is the nitted knickers and vest (ladies!)

http://www.vam.ac.uk/contentapi/search/ ... it%2BQuery

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/0 ... -patterns/

http://www.vam.ac.uk/users/node/1744

Other patterns include jumpers, shawls, balaclavas, wooly hats, gloves etc ...

[annie]

do877 do877
Bet knitted knickers are not the most comfortable!!!!!!

[wendy]

I will always look at you in a different way now Liz, and wonder if you have knitted them .

I really thought you was serious at first. do877

[chenrezig]

Nooo, I did wonder about doing the knitted knickers as a laugh to take to knit and knatter, but I wouldn't dream of wearing them, way too drafty with all thoes holes !!!