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Secrets to darning - A beginners guide
By Franklyn Gallup of BibleFree.org
Darning is a form of repair used often for socks. It is very similar to weaving on a very small area. To see what this might look like look at these videos: How To Darn A Sock This video takes about nine minutes. You can drag the button at the bottom along to make it go faster. They are using pink yarn on a brown sock so you can see the process better. They also show a sock darned with a similar color at the end to give you an idea of the desired result. Swiss Darning This is actually two videos. Part 1 and Part 2. She goes into a lot of detail. Darning a hole This is another example of daring. Darn Blogs Craftzine.com blog : Darn It! Community of the Land: Blarn! (A blog post about darning) |
A sock in need of darning
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Alright... How long did this take you to write this darn intel? I hope some people take note.
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Thanks for the idea. It took less time than it would to darn a sock.
In the utility era of the last couple of years of the last war and the ten to fifteen years after the end of the war, wealthy people were said to be able to 'throw socks not rocks'. I'm not exactly sure why this was said but I believe it had something to do with the travelling rag and bone men. It seems that poor people, rather than admitting that they had nothing to give him, would throw a half brick into his waggon and decline any payment on the basis that they could afford to dispose of a worthless item. People who were well off could actually afford to give him old clothes (socks) in return for whatever was being offered. The poverty in these years was something that very few people appreciated because it was always felt that UK did well out of the war but, in reality, UK fought well but did not win the peace negotiations and her leaders sacrificed the country's future as easily and carelessly as they had sacrificed her young men. In fact, poverty levels in the UK were far greater than they were in Germany because UK paid reparations but did not receive compensation for the death and destruction she suffered. Many British families had to pay for the repatriation of their dead sons and fathers. The darning mushroom was one of those items every household had but liked to pretend that it had not. As well as darning socks, the poor would stick strips of old bicycle tyres on their boots or put pieces of hardboard inside them. We children were told to walk on newly tarred roads to help make our shoes last longer. Ladies were still drawing lines on their legs to look like stocking seams well into the 1950's. Saucepans were repaired using two steel washers with cork washers screwed onto a bolt. The poverty that was wide spread created great ways of economising - darning was just one of the more recognisable ones.
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Awesome. Walking on freshly tarred roads to make shoes last longer sounds like it would make a mess if you walked inside with those shoes. I am assuming they were left at the front door or backdoor and not used inside the house.
Walking on freshly tarred roads gave the soles and heels a coating of tar which then collected dust and grit - this was remarkably resilient and added greatly to the life and water proof qualities.. Since very few people had more than one pair of shoes, they served all purposes and, since most homes had outside toilets and many had no internal water supply, changing shoes at home was not really a viable proposition. Once the 'urgent' repairs of the south-east had been carried out, we in the north were provided with piped gas for lighting and cooking. Some areas even had electricity! I remember it was 1952 when our house was converted from gas light to electric light. My dad complained because he couldn't smell if the light was on or not.
Well -- I don't know how to darn. I saw my mother do it often, and I half heartedly tried once or twice. To be honest, I think life's too short to spend it darning socks. LOL
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I asked my wife if she could darn my socks. She laughed and just said she threw out all my socks with holes in them. Not only is life too short but the price of new socks is so little that the time to do it anymore is hard to justify. There are links in the Intel above which go to videos that show you how. It is a slow process. It is also a lost art.
You are going to get some puns here, I see. Well, I used to darn things a long time ago, but not lately. Actually, the last thing I darned was a torn window curtain. Way more fun than buying a new one.
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Window curtains sound like fun.
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