Old Hand Knitters of the Dales

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First published 1951. A new edition edited by Penelope L Hemingway. The following text is based on 1978 edition: Chapters include: 'Knitting in early times'; 'Knitting industry'; 'The old flank knitters of the Dales'; 'Swaledale - the yeoman hosier / the last phase'; 'Wensleydale - Ackrigg / Yore Mills / Gayle and Hawes'; 'Westmorland - Kendal / Ravenstonedale and Orton' / Kirkby Stephen'; 'The terrible E'Dent'. Includes much about Joseph Dover & Son of Hebblethwaite Hall Woollen Mills including most notably as an appendix [pp104-23] transcriptions of letters, 1819-35, as well as list of employees, list of farmer suppliers of wool, list of firms mentioned in ledger