#corticelli yarns

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Patterns for Corticelli Yarn, 1922

Once commercial yarn was invented and women were not spinning it themselves, yarn producers realized it made a lot of sense to feed the hunger for new patterns. You see here a page taken from a free publication which you will find at the Antique Pattern Library online.

Because of black and white movies, and the modern tendency for movie directors to make everyone wear sepia tones in historical stories, we often forget that the people of the past lived with just as much color as well do. You see here 1920s sweaters with some very playful coloring especially the lower right-hand picture. But all of them have some color play if only tipping. Notice that the waists are not well marked, and belts tended to fall lower and looser. This is in keeping with the tube silhouette which became so popular during the 1920s and made women try to flatten out all of their curves. Dropped collars were also popular in the 1910s and in the early 1920s.

For more free knitting and crochet patterns and dressmaking directions from the early 20th century and earlier, go here: www.AntiquePatternLibrary.com