During the wars there was apparently an Official Comforts Fund, which was a way of getting clothing, food, entertainment, to the troops. There is a little bit on it at the Victorian museum’s website.
I found this out when I bought a knitting booklet on ebay – it has a really nice photograph on the front and I had no pictures of gents to draw, only ladies. I was quite pleasantly surprised at the little slice of history I got, though. It has the most amazing patterns for all the forces as well as those patterns being modelled.
What an amazingly good looking young chap on the cover. We had a virtual tech summit at work last week and while I watched talks on various topics of software development and culture on zoom, I also drew him. It turned out quite well.
So much cable knit.
He’s done in pen outline, 2H, 2B, and 7B. Just using this amount of pencils, you can get amazing dynamic range going.
