Handmade Woollen Stockings -to order
Handmade on an antique hand-cranked circular stocking machine and hand finished, these pure wool stockings are designed to reflect historical styles.
The current listing is a 'design your own stocking' form, you'll be directed to a form at checkout where you can tell me your choices from the following features:
Length: Standard is just over the knee on most wearers, Thigh high is around six inches longer, Extra Long is about ten-twelve inches longer, suitable for wearing with the briefest trunkhose.
Heel style: Common heel is a square heel with a three needle bind off under the heel, best for early datelines. Short row heel is a very comfortable more modern style but very useful if you have sensitive feet or don't plan on being seen without your shoes on!
Seam: I can add a purl row 'seam' detail at the back if you wish. This is common on most early stockings.
Shade: I have access to a huge range of shades, classic favourites are undyed white, silver grey, mid brown, mid blue and red, but feel free to contact me for a look at the shade card from the yarn broker, or send me a colour reference and I can see what I have that is close to it.
Fit: These work for most leg shapes, but if you are extremely slim or very heavily built please do contact me to discuss fitting options, there are limits to what I can manage, but can generally fit up to a 22 inch leg without too much difficulty. You may need to garter, these have no added elastic and are designed to mimic early stockings as closely as possible.
Stocking care: Hand wash (or machine equivalent), air dry, shape whilst damp. Pure wool stockings will eventually need darning, a twist of matching yarn is included to help you get the longest possible life out of your stockings.
As with all my custom orders, when the shop opens I take as many orders as I can knit in the following four months, so please be patient. I'm often faster than that, but it may take a while to get these onto the needles for you
Handmade on an antique hand-cranked circular stocking machine and hand finished, these pure wool stockings are designed to reflect historical styles.
The current listing is a 'design your own stocking' form, you'll be directed to a form at checkout where you can tell me your choices from the following features:
Length: Standard is just over the knee on most wearers, Thigh high is around six inches longer, Extra Long is about ten-twelve inches longer, suitable for wearing with the briefest trunkhose.
Heel style: Common heel is a square heel with a three needle bind off under the heel, best for early datelines. Short row heel is a very comfortable more modern style but very useful if you have sensitive feet or don't plan on being seen without your shoes on!
Seam: I can add a purl row 'seam' detail at the back if you wish. This is common on most early stockings.
Shade: I have access to a huge range of shades, classic favourites are undyed white, silver grey, mid brown, mid blue and red, but feel free to contact me for a look at the shade card from the yarn broker, or send me a colour reference and I can see what I have that is close to it.
Fit: These work for most leg shapes, but if you are extremely slim or very heavily built please do contact me to discuss fitting options, there are limits to what I can manage, but can generally fit up to a 22 inch leg without too much difficulty. You may need to garter, these have no added elastic and are designed to mimic early stockings as closely as possible.
Stocking care: Hand wash (or machine equivalent), air dry, shape whilst damp. Pure wool stockings will eventually need darning, a twist of matching yarn is included to help you get the longest possible life out of your stockings.
As with all my custom orders, when the shop opens I take as many orders as I can knit in the following four months, so please be patient. I'm often faster than that, but it may take a while to get these onto the needles for you
Handmade on an antique hand-cranked circular stocking machine and hand finished, these pure wool stockings are designed to reflect historical styles.
The current listing is a 'design your own stocking' form, you'll be directed to a form at checkout where you can tell me your choices from the following features:
Length: Standard is just over the knee on most wearers, Thigh high is around six inches longer, Extra Long is about ten-twelve inches longer, suitable for wearing with the briefest trunkhose.
Heel style: Common heel is a square heel with a three needle bind off under the heel, best for early datelines. Short row heel is a very comfortable more modern style but very useful if you have sensitive feet or don't plan on being seen without your shoes on!
Seam: I can add a purl row 'seam' detail at the back if you wish. This is common on most early stockings.
Shade: I have access to a huge range of shades, classic favourites are undyed white, silver grey, mid brown, mid blue and red, but feel free to contact me for a look at the shade card from the yarn broker, or send me a colour reference and I can see what I have that is close to it.
Fit: These work for most leg shapes, but if you are extremely slim or very heavily built please do contact me to discuss fitting options, there are limits to what I can manage, but can generally fit up to a 22 inch leg without too much difficulty. You may need to garter, these have no added elastic and are designed to mimic early stockings as closely as possible.
Stocking care: Hand wash (or machine equivalent), air dry, shape whilst damp. Pure wool stockings will eventually need darning, a twist of matching yarn is included to help you get the longest possible life out of your stockings.
As with all my custom orders, when the shop opens I take as many orders as I can knit in the following four months, so please be patient. I'm often faster than that, but it may take a while to get these onto the needles for you
