There does seem to be a tendency to 'Romanticise' knitted things - all that guff about the Arran patterns, fisherman's ganseys and the Shetland lace patterns - from what can be learned at this distance in time, they were simply legends devised for export, probably enhanced by individual collectors to increase the numbers of items ordered from them.
I strongly suspect that the allegiance to a cause being indicated by the colour of dicing on your bonnet is equally illusory.
Anne the Pleater :ootd:
I presume to dictate to no man what he shall eat or drink or wherewithal he shall be clothed."
-- The Hon. Stuart Ruaidri Erskine, The Kilt & How to Wear It, 1901.
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