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Crowdsourced Collection
Identifier
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2018.01
Description
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<strong>Add to CKC’s Crowdsourced Collection</strong> <br /><br />
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CKC invites you to share your treasures in our new Crowdsourced Collection. We built this resource to help you preserve and share the items that are meaningful to you and their stories, and to help you find out more about these items from community members, if you choose, when not much is known about them. <br /><br />Generally, we are looking for items that are handmade using knitting or crochet. Please follow this link to read what we envisioned you might want to share when we built this resource: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTeiI7JDVzEhkjT2N6fo4abGkgRmliYQJBmklBsg_8E22XBQ24_eD77jBru_GQpS2B9u0pBHtA1--SY/pub" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Share Your Treasures</a>. You are not limited to what is described there; this resource is for you. <br /><br />To add your items, follow the links below. Please contact us at info@centerforknitandcrochet.org if you have questions, need assistance, or want to provide feedback and suggestions to improve this system. We are always seeking ways to better serve the needs and interests of the community. <br /><br /><a href="http://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/contribution" target="_blank" title="Link to the online contribution page" rel="noreferrer noopener">I want to share my knitted or crocheted treasure with CKC now! </a><br /><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRT2P70nbhd8lpEfMvuPZ2d-5AEL3JB7nUENn6cCEng1ereFRfckF18AWINHZ6klYpBfjdYkJn2DIsH/pub" target="_blank" title="Instructions for Filling out the online contribution form" rel="noreferrer noopener">I need instructions on filling out the online contribution form for the Crowdsourced Collection.</a> <br /><br />FREE to all. No membership required, but you do have to set up an account to add items. Please be sure to read <a href="https://centerforknitandcrochet.org/privacy-policy/">CKC's Privacy Policy</a>. <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/11Hb_Y75HnhkCE5i4mKpcTlB8Msp_lB0XUtQr5S8XXKA/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"></a>
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Dublin Core
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Title
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Scandinavian Style Hat
Date
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ca. 1970s
Format
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Circumference 20”, Height (with brim folded) 6.5”, Brim 3”
Description
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My grandmother, Doris Scovill, gave me this hat in the late 1960s or early 1970s. At that time, she worked as a travel agent planning tours to Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. On her own travels there, she collected textiles and other decorative objects for the home that she used every day, and that still remind me of her. At that time, architecture, interior design, home furnishings, fashion, and jewelry from Scandinavian designers were extremely popular and influential in the United States.
It is likely that my grandmother knitted this hat for me herself -- she was an accomplished knitter, and the hat has no label and looks handmade. I also recall her giving me a child’s cardigan with silver buttons in a similar style at about the same time, but I do not now recall if it matched the hat.
Commercial patterns were widely available for Scandinavian-inspired knits in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Perhaps someone will recognize the source of this hat design!
Construction Notes:
The hat is knitted in the round using wool yarn in five colors – natural white, dark brown, red, yellow, and blue. The colors are dyed -- the yellow, red, and blue are especially bright and intense -- a 1970s take on a color palette traditionally derived from plant dyes and natural fibers. The patterned hat brim folds up along a picot edge. There is a large, tricolor "pompon" or "pom-pom" on the top -- a popular accessory in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Condition: Excellent.
Provenance
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Jennifer Lindsay
Identifier
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2018.011
hat, knitted, Scandinavian, pompon, pom-pom, stranded, wool