Do you have a cite for those caps and the mufflers? I haven't found any reference to knitted scarves for the 18th century -- they're very, very prevalent in the 19th century, but mufflers prior to that seem to be of woven cloth.
I would do the hat in garter stich anyway. Fashion was rather wild back then and we have only few real finds from that period and most of them are from only a very small stratum of society. If it looks good, then I'm sure somebody might have done the pattern in garter stitch as well.
Er, there are tons of finds for the 18th century. I usually do medieval and Renaissance era stuff, and compared to that there's definitely enough finds from the 18th century to come to some idea about what they did. And, sorry, but saying to go ahead and knit a hat in garter stitch when there's really very little evidence that it would have happened is making a tremendous leap, when the preponderance of extant knit caps are done in stockinette.
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Date: 2011-10-01 09:45 pm (UTC)I would do the hat in garter stich anyway. Fashion was rather wild back then and we have only few real finds from that period and most of them are from only a very small stratum of society. If it looks good, then I'm sure somebody might have done the pattern in garter stitch as well.
Er, there are tons of finds for the 18th century. I usually do medieval and Renaissance era stuff, and compared to that there's definitely enough finds from the 18th century to come to some idea about what they did. And, sorry, but saying to go ahead and knit a hat in garter stitch when there's really very little evidence that it would have happened is making a tremendous leap, when the preponderance of extant knit caps are done in stockinette.