She Just Won't Shut Up About the Damned Stockings

While I was searching around the apartment for images of stripy Victorian stockings I found a catalog with some early Edwardian black cotton lace jobbies and black & white cotton patterned ones.

rubs hands together all mad-scientist-like

These are early enough in the Edwardian era that stockings are still mostly knit in black, rather than the white stuff that came later on. They're all very fine-gauge lisle cotton, which would have a nice, hard finish, and the lace looks pretty intricate. Much too fine for hand-knitting, but I could probably muddle through something that has the same look. I'm really looking for a boot-lace stocking sort of like the one at the top left or the top right, but I really like the black & white striped No. 5213.

Maybe a rayon or silk-blend might hold up better than cotton. It at least wouldn't fade or shrink like cotton.


Here's a late-Victorian (1890s) cotton lisle boot-lace stocking I've already wasted everyone's time with a couple months ago.

wanders away