Stores In Stitches 6: Reuse, Recycle, Repurpose

In SIS6, We’ll explore the history of recycling. From materials to ideas, everything old can be new again.

During the Civil War era, knitters were frugal and used what was on hand. Tobacco twine was used to make bedspreads, tents were unraveled and the string knit into socks, rugs were knit from cut-up shirts and dresses, and old fisherman’s sweater from Europe became arm winter wear for Americans on both side of the Mason-Dixon line.