I do research on and recreate garments and objects from the past. My sources range from original items to photographs in books, periodicals, art works, literary references and period patterns. My research also involves the history of knitting needles and related implements.
The portrait in the corner is by Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842) of Elisabeth Alexeyevna (?), location and ownership unknown.
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She might be. This site: sourisvalleymuseum.tumblr.com/
has photographs of her knitting a sock in her dressing room in 1947.
Thanks! Another image for my collection.
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