Must-Watch Knitting Content You May Have Missed
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2024
- In today’s episode, I’m sharing seven videos rich with knitting/fiber arts related content outside of the realm of ‘knitting podcast land’!
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• The Melancholic Histor...
• How The World's Most E...
• FAIR ISLE KNITTING: A ...
• The Cowichan Sweater: ...
• How a Working Class Sw...
• The Wool Islands
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Highly recommend the 45min documentary, “Spies, Socks, and Soldiers: A Fascinating History of Wartime Knitting” by Shannon Makes, here on YT. It was the result of her deep dive into the history of a vintage WWII sweater vest pattern, but she found amazing details and WONDERFUL vintage footage clips from the British home front on the knitting effort, and even what other animal fibers could be called into service when wool was in short supply. Highly, highly recommend! Btw, she’s a dress history enthusiast by day and a professional circus performer by night!
Rajiv is my hero. I've started learning calligraphy because of him, also making real chapatis or rotis and trying out watercolours. He is amazing!
Hi Taylor, when we lived on Vancouver Is. I bought a Cowichan Blue sweater, and we have my husband's parents two traditional sweaters, also a Cowichan knitted hat. Thank you so much for including Cowichan knits in your video. Their sweaters are very dense, heavy, and loved by all who buy them.
Geansaí (pronounced as Gansey) is the Irish word for jumper or sweater so that could be what he is talking about in the Working Class Sweater video
Canadian here. Mary Galloway's documentary "The Cowichan Sweater: Our Knitted Legacy" is wonderful. It's part of her own legacy, which makes the film quite endearing. Not only a historical look at the art, it also takes you down the road of how the very fibers are created and the challenges producing those sweaters today. Lucky enough to have seen it in its entirety.
The algorithm is a crazy thing because since last week when I found your channel and started watching more of it, half of these videos popped up on my feed. Thanks for feeding my algorithm!
I have now gone down the Rajiv rabbit hole. What a beautiful, thoughtful artist. Thank you for this video. I will be watching more of your recommendations. This was a treat.
Hi Tayler. Aussie knitter here. One of the sports we play here is Australian Rules Football and Fun Fact the shirts the players wear are called Guernseys (we pronounce it as GURnsey as in gur rhymes with purr) because back in the day (1870s??) the shirts were made of WOOL!! 😊Thx for this great little collection of vids. PS: I am also fangirling on Rajiv. 😂
A few years ago the Hibulb Cultural Center in Tulalip, Washington had a great exhibit on Coast Salish Knitting. The best thing about this center is that the exhibit integrates kid-friendly and more adult-centered information so it’s really hands on and tactile. For example, you could play a video game where you had to fill a basket with gathered wool, and you could try out carding wool. They also had a blanket remnant that was made with wooly dog hair! Wooly dogs are extinct now 😢.
Roxanne Richardson, here on RUclips, has a segment each week where she highlights knitting content like these videos, as well as articles, museum shows, etc… I’ve seen one or two of these videos through Roxanne’s channel,
Watching the blooper made me strongly remember myself before school presentations lol
I just love that you stuck around for that. That means a lot. Thank you. 🙏 ❤️
The one thing I remember when I was learning about circular knitting and traditional sweaters was slightly humorous, although the context was not. There is a tradition (not sure if it is truth or legend) that both the Aran sweater and the Scottish gansey were knitted to keep their fisherman warm. They were knitted so the wearer could be identified. That is the grim part of this legend. The humor came from the comparison of the two styles. The Ganseys were knitted so that no design aspect of the sweater was covered up by the fisherman's oilskin pants, and to save yarn. The Aran sweaters were knitted without too much worry over those factors. I was learning all of this about 30 years ago, and my details may not be totally accurate. Not sure where I learned all of this, but I suspect Elizabeth Zimmermann may have been my source. She was a delightful knitter.
I think your vlog just came up because I just finished watching Rajiv’s vlog about Gansey knit sweaters. It was very interesting and so informative.
Taylor, there is a whole series of podcasts about the Shetland Islands and knitting, produced by Shetland Wool Week, for several years. You will meet individual knitters and designers, and learn how they learned to knit, in school, and without patterns. There are also videos from. The yarn producer Jamieson and Smith. There are videos on Shetland Lace. There many, many rabbit holes to explore.
Yes! The Shetland Amenity Trust channel has SUCH great content. I’m telling you, I could make two more videos like this with all this good fiber-y content. ❤️
I haven't finished watching, and I had to stop and comment because Rajiv and the Gansey/Guernsey...first, I had never heard of him until very recently when the very video you mention popped up in my RUclips (I love it when the algorithm gets it right!), and of course I watched it and loved it. But what drew my attention particularly was that on a recent trip to Australia, I sat next to a n older couple from guess where...Guernsey! They guessed I wouldn't know where that was, and I sheepishly said, ummm...I'm a knitter, I know Guernsey...and it turns out he's been knitting his whole life. Anyway, small world and all that...now back to the rest of your video!
Rajiv! I love his videos. I recommend the one where he goes thrifting in Chicago.
Me Too!!!!!
Omg I LOVE his antiquing videos! ❤
Tayler, I'm rather at a loss for words, but just... Thank You for this eye-opening presentation. You have awesome content and I am grateful for you!
Ah, this means a lot Kath. It’s my pleasure. Thank you for watching. ❤️❤️
I recently saw Rajiv’s video before this one, it was an enjoyable and informative video. For those that enjoy fiber art history, A fiber art (history) channel I really enjoy is Kristine Vike. Her video on textiles that can’t be reproduced by machine is super interesting!
Back in the dark ages (before there was RUclips, before podcasting before moveable type)my daughter, a friend and I had a weekly program on knitting on our local university band. No video so we used lots of spoken content like this. (It was also a time before cultural appropriation was acknowledged and I'm ashamed to say I knit many a "Cowichan" sweater - Canadian here.) This programme really struck a chord with me on may levels. Recommending "Women's Work: the first 20,000 Years" if you're interested in diving deeper.
Thank you for interesting, informative and well crafted shows all 'round. I love it.
For a longer bite about the history of Aran sweaters I recommend Mina Le's video on them from a few months ago (: She's more talking-head style but I appreciate her dedication to research and her diligent sourcing, and her video has a little more focus on the sweater's contemporary history and impact. She does a lot more fashion/makeup historical deep-dives, but I think the Aran one might be the only knitting specific content so far (:
Wow! Just amazing your subject is!!! I live in Canada... I'm half and half canadian /mexican. Living in eastern Canada... I live in a French speaking province and I did not hear about the Cowichan before, but more of all the Eastern Canadian tribes! This style is so similar to Mexican knitted sweaters my mother use to buy for us when we were young! We used to go to Mexico visit our family and we go to "artesanias" everytime we could to see all those native krafts!!! My mother was a potter and she loved all kind of arts. I always believed that all the natives living in America use to share a lot more than we think! There is too much similarity in the arts and krafts... just as knitting, leather work and beaded garment... it is not a coincidence by any mean, they must have traveled to share their knowledge all over America way before European people came to their territory. Amazing! Thank you
I remember being so impressed the first time I watched Rajiv, it was a tour of his apartment. Renaissance man is correct.
Loved the blooper at the end! I'm following you because of your knitting content, but also to improve my English (I'm a Dutchie in Germany). Your vocabulary and creativity is inspiring! Even more so when you show your struggles as a native speaker :)
Wow, I'm floored at how many of you have stuck around for the blooper! That's awesome! And I'm honored that you're finding my videos to be helpful as you navigate this language. It can be tricky for even the most...proficient. lol! ❤️
i am subscribed to rajiv. he does all kinds of videos diy's ,decorating, restoring furniture. he is so talented.
Fantastic video. I live in Canada and watched the Cowichan sweater documentary on CBC GEM. It was great! It got me thinking that I might want to knit sweaters from across Canada... 😅 (I have not knit one sweater in my life yet 😂) Anyway RUclips suggested a few more rabbit holes since then. I watched the Icelandic Sweater Documentary. And Arne and Carlos did an interview with a woman who curates a local sweater museum and is a well known historical sweater maker. Watching these documentaries, I learned that every stich had a meaning. Nothing was arbitrary. I have become a little more mindful. 😊
I have been watching Rajiv for a while. I am enamored.
Thank you for sharing these interesting videos. I watched them all. It's fun to here what the knitting "fringe" community has to teach us about our craft. I think about those ancient knitters and how they worked out problems with their knitting that we benefit from today. Did you see the short rows on the knitted hats in the last video! Not a single hole. Genius!
I’ve been reading the book that the tv series Silo is based on. It’s a sci-fi novel called Wool and there’s a whole chapter on knitting: finding gauge, casting on and knitting… it’s an awesome book made even more amazing by this inclusion! 😂
thanks so much for introducing us to Rajiv.
I started watching his videos.
So soothing and calming and wonderful !
Thanks Taylor for taking a lot of time to assemble all those stellar videos and shared them on your site. It makes the craft of knitting more valuable to me to know the history and how knitting evolved throughout history.
This is *exactly* the kind of knitting content I’ve been wanting recently, thank you SO much for this video!
I was born in the Cowichan valley, so these sweaters have been part of my world since birth. I have knit a few myself. The doc is well worth watching 😍😍
I just wanna say….
I appreciate your shirt, girl. 🥰
I love Dr. Smiti! She has an excellent book channel as well. All my favorite things are colliding!
I took a class at Maryland Sheep and Wool on how to make a Cowichan Sweater..
Fun class!
Sylvia Olsen’s book, Working With Wool: A Coast Salish Legacy And The Cowichan Sweater is a fascinating deep dive into this iconic knitting tradition. It is a very well written book, with an insider’s perspective, and full of really interesting revelations.
Oooo thank you for this recommendation! I'll check it out for sure. ❤️
I just discovered Rajiv and the Guernsey video this weekend. I love him. Great videos. I saw a documentary on knitting in Iceland recently. It was so interesting.
I'm so excited to see the Cowichan Sweater!! There was another video that I can't find that talks about it, had to watch it many times for my degree! I had the chance to work with the ladies who make them still and learn how to card wool and I think it's what really inspired me to get into that aspect of fiber arts!!
Oh my gosh, Tayler - I just watched Rajiv 2 nights ago before you mentioning him and I absolutely loved it.! He is fantastic and I learned a lot about ganseys.😊
Omg- adding all these to my queue. Love all the history here! You just curated my Watch Later list for when baby naps and mama knits. Thank you 😊
I love this. I so remember those watch later lists. Thank you for watching Teresa! Enjoy! ☺️
I’ve run across a few of these videos myself. Thank you for adding to my listening and viewing pleasure 🧶🧶
My pleasure! So glad you enjoyed this. And I'm happy that so many folks here also watch Rajiv. He's such an inspiration.
Most of my knitting time I spend watching knitting related YT content, and these are all going into my queue. Thanks!
Thank you so much for putting up this video. I am very interested in all fiber arts and especially knitting. Surprisingly, I had just watched Rajiv's video yesterday. Now, thanks to you, I have several more interesting videos to watch. Keep doing what you do, you do it well!
So funny - I just watched Rajiv’s video today - I guess RUclips knew I may be interested. I didn’t know who he was or what his background was - and I felt like maybe it was a “final project” for a university class or something? I thought it was a very creative presentation in that context. I was surprised to hear him say that he couldn’t knit a guernsey and that he paid for his to be knit. This made me look a little but more into him and I see he is a knitter…and he obviously is a spinner - so hopefully he will finish a guernsey!!
I had no idea Rajiv was in mean girls! Hahaha that’s hilarious. His content is so relaxing I love it
Can't wait to have some 'bites of time' to look at ALL of these. Grateful for your mining of this history.
This is just the palette cleanser I need, as I was burning out on podcasts. If I see one more emotional support chicken, I'm going to lose my shitsky! (But yes, they're adorbs, and I've knit one lol)
Thank u for coming up with this list-I'm out to download now.
I want to say I've seen the cowichan doc,I think maybe it was linked through an episode of fleece and harmony?
I'm glad this served as a bit of a break from the usual. And I know...we're losing it with these support chickens. 😂
I appreciate how much work goes into these videos, Tayler! ❤❤❤
Thank you so much Star!
I watched Rajiv’s video a couple of days ago, and it definitely made me want to knit a gansey! Thanks for the other suggestions which are new to me. 👍🏴
I love to see your passion for knitting meeting your soul as an educator. Thanks for the very informative video
Off to watch all of these! Thanks so much for putting the list together.
love this video…I am running out of things to watch and love vids like these
Your videos are so unique and informative…I learned so much in this one video! Think I might try a Gansey for my son now that I know the history. Thank you!❤
This means so much to me Janice! Thank you. ❤️
Great content! Just what I was looking for and only one of the videos was one I had seen before (Faire Isle Documentary). Please make a video like this again next year!
I've just watched all of the videos you recommended, and have now gone down my own rabbit hole. Thanks.
Thanks for taking me down your rabbit hole. I love documentaries, expecially ones that I can relate to personally.
This is so cool, Taylor. Thank you for sharing all these creators with us!
Hi Taylor, this was absolutely amazing. I love traditional podcast but I thoroughly enjoy the history of fiber and knitting. Thank-you. I also love your Ravelry Roulette. So much fun. I saw your granny square coaster on you table. It inspired me to knit some but I added a shelf liner on the bottom to keep it from slipping.
I do enjoy your pointers to knitting patterns but pointers to other videos that might be of interest is fascinating. I’ve already watched the Rajiv video and both he and the ganseys are new to me. Wonderful idea!
Tayler this was great. I love that you found some of these little bits of history of yarn and knitting. I hope you keep sharing this type of content. What a treat!
Your channel is so incredibly informative! I'm relatively new to knitting (crocheting since late 1970's) and I never knew so much about making sweaters! I thought people just start making it up as they go. 🤦 Wow! Thank you so much! I don't really have knitter's in my community so you help me so much! Thank you, thank you, thank you.
The pleasure is mine Kelly. Thank you so much. ❤️
Thank you Tayler, this is very inspiring ! I love your videos ! I have a book recommandation if you wish to explore the different knitting traditions and knitting techniques and be able to desing your own sweater accordingly. This is the "Knitting in the Old Way" by Priscilla Gibson -Roberts and Deborah Robson. I got the 2004 edition, it's a big book. It's fascinating, no photos at all, only black and white illustrations, it's beautiful. It covers many knitting traditions country by country, (including south america, north america, europe) and it provides all the techniques, constructions, design elements you need to build your sweater.
Catherine (french viewer)😊
You have the best ideas and content. Really looking forward to watching all of the videos and to learning more about knitting. Thank you.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I love this video and look forward to watching the videos you have shared with us!
Awesome! Thank you for this!
This was so much fun! Thank you!
Catching up on some WNH pods and wow. This was fascinating. I’m so excited to plop down, pull out some knitting, and watch these. Thanks, Tayler!
Such a good idea, thanks !
This was great! Thank you!
Loved this. 👏🏻
Loved this topic and am looking forward to watching these.
This is wonderful. Thank you.
I Loved These!! Thanks so much!! ❤
Love this! Thank you
These have been great!
Thanks for sharing such great content.
Thank you for all your hard work in collecting these videos. I very much enjoy learning about the history of the fiber arts.
Love the recs! Adding to my playlist.
Thank you. This is so my jam. For me, knitting is greatly enhanced by understanding the history of the craft and especially the pattern traditions of various cultures. Also important is understanding the yarn passing through your fingers, differences between breeds,, how and by whom it was it gathered, spun, dyed. I will look at each and every one of these.
What a fun and generous episode!!
Amazing information, thank you Taylor!
Well done! Thank you for the compilation. Can't wait to check them out.
Very good resource…very informative!
What an amazing list of suggestions! Thank you ❤
This was really fun and will check out some of the videos.
Thank you so much. I'm going to check out all of these.
This is great! Thank you. Such a unique content idea.
Wonderful. Thank you for all the thought that goes into your work
Awesome Sauce!
Thanks Tayler 🌸
Thanks Taylor for a great video. It was so interesting.
Such a great video Taylor! I can't wait to watch these ❤️
Absolutely took value from this video! Thank you!!
Also WOW what a great video! Thank you!
Love this! Saving this video for future reference so I can watch all of these
I love this! I so appreciate having these videos to check out. Already watched the first one and it was fantastic!
What a great podcast! Thanks for the inspiration.
This was such a great idea! Thanks you! I am going to enjoy watching all of these videos.
Great episode- as per usu. will def. watch! Great video diving 🎉
Thanks for these great recommendations, looking forward to watching some, if not all, of them :)
Wonderful podcast, Taylor. I will definitely watch them.