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Kiewe, Heinz Edgar.
The Sacred History of Knitting [Signed by the author].
Publisher: Art Needlework Industries Ltd., Oxford;
Date of Publication: 1971
Stock Code: 14650
Second Edition. Paperback octavo, pp., xvi, 124, plus 13 plates within text and 98 black-and-white photographic full-page plates to end. Publisher’s pictorial white wraps, titled to spine and both covers. Signed by the author in green ink and dated 1977 to half-title. Spine cracked and corners slightly curled; otherwise a clean, bright, and neat copy. A study of the history of knitting from antiquity to the middle ages. This second ediiton includes additional commentary on the discovery of the earliest example of a knitting needle from the British Isles, found among Pre-Roman artefacts at Cirencester. £45.00