Met Museum ART WALK - Lydia Crocheting

Quoted from metmuseum.org: Cassatt and her family spent the summer of 1880 at Marly-le-Roi, about ten miles west of Paris. Ignoring the village’s historic landmarks in her art, Cassatt focused instead on the domestic environment. Here, she portrayed her elder sister, Lydia, fashionably dressed and insulated by a walled garden from any modern hurly-burly. Lydia is absorbed in the sort of old-fashioned handicraft that was increasingly prized by the well-to-do as factory manufacture by working-class women escalated. Although Cassatt was generally uninterested in plein-air painting, she captured the effects of dazzling sunlight beautifully in this work, especially in Lydia’s large white hat.

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Superfine DK
100% sw superfine merino
250 yards per skein | DK Weight |

Superfine Fingering
90% sw superfine merino/10% nylon
fingering weight | approx. 400 yds per skein

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fingering weight | approx. 500 yds per skein

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