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Author: bookratt
Date: Sun Oct/23/05 5:30pm
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Rake Knitting at Kenilworth Hospital... I am in search of a book or booklet by Bertha Thompson, called Rake Knitting.

She advocated use of occupational therapy for war wounded and the mentally ill. Rakes for knitting (round, pegged looms and straight pegged looms which resembled old-fashioned, wooden garden rakes) were made and used by patients at Kenilworth, aka Biltmore Hospital.

She then wrote this book about the patterns and techniques used. I live in PA, so of course my library doesn't have it and the circ. manager says they can't request it, since I don't know the year it was published or the publisher name.

I tried Books ...More


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