WANTED, A KNITTING CHAIR
HINDRANCE OF ARMS With the universal knitting erase, it is time that a knitting chair was invented, on the lines of the old sewing chairs which adorned nurseries and drawing room, says an English writer. The average chair is unsuitable for knitting because there is not enough spread for the arms. The chair arms, therefore, must either be hw and widen outwards, as did some of the Victorian chairs, or they must be dispensed with altogether. The chair must, however, be as low as a really low arm chair. And where a chair is low it needs a long seat. Some of those made with good square cushions set upon strong elastic bands, and therefore springy and comfortable, are not sufficiently long in the seat, and catch the bend of the legs in the wrong place. Lowness implies a sea't which is longer than one would think it ought to be. There is also the angle of the back. It is remarkable at this time of day how many chairs fail in the angle of the back and have to be supplemented by cushions, whereas a perfectly comfortable seat can be made of wood, provided only that this angle be right; Chair designers might actually take a person and model the angle of the back upon him or her. Jf this were done in a good many cases an average might be found. An excellent knitting chair might be made with a low seat, curving over thickly where it leaves olf, since the padding always tends to sink, and with a plain padded back with no tendency at all to sink in the middle. If this were a shade more verging on a right angle than is usually the case the knitter would have a chair in which she could sit all day without growing tired.
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Dunstan Times, 13 March 1933, Page 6
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