Welcome to English Crafts -
where you will find a wide selection of cabin crochet nets and
porthole covers made to both traditional and original designs.
Canal Cabin Crochet

During the
heyday of the inland waterways system in England, many of the heavy
cargos were carried around the country by barges and
narrowboats. The small cabins on these boats became the homes
of the 'captain', and his wife and family, and were often ornately
decorated with wood-graining, and painted castles and roses.
The women
beautified their tiny homes with pretty ribbon-edged lace plates, small
pieces of gleaming brass, and crochet work, usually with 'van
Dyke' points, which they pinned around the top of the cabin walls,
around the shelf edges, and with which they trimmed the bed'ole
curtain, their own, and their children's clothes.
In the days
of horse-drawn boats, even the horse benefited from the boatwoman's
skill, as it was customary in some areas to crochet earcaps, decorated with a
multitude of brightly coloured tassels, with which to protect the
horse or mule from flies, as he plodded along the towpath hauling
his heavy load.
Elizabeth
Bryant, an accredited Master of Crochet and Cabin Lace in
the Waterways Craft Guild, now continues this tradition, making crochet nets
in a wide variety of traditional and original designs.
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