No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting Audio Book by Anne L. Macdonald Publisher: Knitting Out Loud Edition: Audio disk Size: 132 x 145 mm Illustrations: Colour throughout Pages: 4 C Book Description Knitting was interwoven into the lives of women throughout American history. Drawn from diaries, letters and personal reminiscences, No Idle Hands tells an intimate and sometimes hair-raising story of hand knitting in America from Colonial times onward. Women knit through the hardships of covered wagon travel across the West. They knit to save their husbands and sons from freezing to death on battlefields. Shell-shocked men knit to save their sanity in hospitals during both world wars. No Idle Hands documents the importance knitting has had in American life. Read by Kymberly Dakin Audiobook abridged 4 CDs About The Author Historian Anne L. Macdonald, the former head of the History Department at the National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C. is also the author of Feminine Ingenuity: Women and Invention in America (1994) and Perrot: The Story of a Library (2006). The Textile Directory Bookstore postal charges: UK 1 book = £2.50 2 books = £4.50 3 books = £7.00 4 books or more = £9.00 Overseas 1 book = £6.00 2 books = £10.00 3 books = £14.00 4 books or more = £18.00 Price: £21.99   (Excluding VAT at 15%)