Jun 21, 2020
Reproduction of an 1840s glove recovered from King William Island, belonging to a Franklin Expedition crew member and brought back to England by McClintock’s search party.
Unfortunately the glove no longer survives intact (fragments of a glove that I believe may be the same object is in the collections at Royal Museums Greenwhich), but was sketched for the Illustrated London News in 1854 and reported to be red, white, and blue. In order to reproduce the patterns I looked at historical/traditional Scandinavian and Latvian designs. @historiestickarna ‘s Instagram images from SENĀ KLĒTS were particularly helpful.
This glove came out to be approximately a men’s large in size and was knitted on size US 1.5 needles.
