RARE Pennsylvania Amish Hand Spun & Knit Wedding Stocking Socks - c. 1860-1920

RARE Pennsylvania Amish Hand Spun & Knit Wedding Stocking Socks - c. 1860-1920 (image 1/2)
RARE Pennsylvania Amish Hand Spun & Knit Wedding Stocking Socks - c. 1860-1920 (image 2/2)
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RARE Pennsylvania Amish Hand Spun & Knit Wedding Stocking Socks - c. 1860-1920 Museum Quality EXTREMELY RARE Amish Wedding Socks. These were only made by a small order of Amish for a short time period in history. "Between 1860 and 1920, Old Order Amish women in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, knit colorful knee-length stockings, many with scalloped tops in vivid contrasting hues from purple, rose, and pink to brown, green, and blue. These stockings were part of private dress, as the long dresses and laced black boots hid their stockings. Sometimes these colorful stockings are called "wedding" stockings; only adult women wore them and perhaps as part of their wedding clothing. They may have knit and worn such stockings because the Lancaster County Amish lived near Germantown, Pennsylvania, home to mills that manufactured "Germantown" yarns. During the 1860's, these mills used the first synthetic aniline dyes to create a much wider ranger of bright-colored yarns than were previously available. Amish life was private, but never closed to outside influences. Perhaps they used inexpensive mill ends of yarn for their stocking tops. Women knit their stockings to a gauge of about ten stitches per inch in the round from the top edge down using double-pointed needles, shaping the calf and toe with careful decreases and usually turning a read more
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