Golden Hands Monthly

I got this stack of 70s craft magazines in a junk shop in Devizes a few years ago. That place was amaz­ing, a multi-floored cavern of junk. It’s gone now, I think. Here’s some photos.There’s the usual ultra-cheesy raffia work projects and crocheted plant hold­ers and so on, but the clothes patterns are actu­ally mostly pretty nice, which is why I bought the magazines. What I’ve scanned is a mix of nice things and weird stuff though. I also couldn’t scan double page spreads very easily, because the bind­ing on the magazines is dodgy, and I didn’t want to pull them about too much in case they broke. These issues are from 1972 and 1973. I have anoth­er issue from 1976, but it’s prin­ted on much cheap­er paper (the paper qual­ity wasn’t ster­ling to begin with) and the contents are pretty dull.

I really like this style of illus­tra­tion.

  
This is the early 70s idea of “narrow trousers”. Also prob­ably of “quiet trousers”.

I have this dress dummy, it’s ubiquit­ous on ebay in the UK. It’s rubbish. Mine’s in cm only, which is annoy­ing, because dress-making is still done in inches here.

Whoever bought this origin­ally lived at Abbey Gardens, and had some felt tips that needed test­ing.

Elec­tric scis­sors sound very alarm­ing.

“Crochet your own poncho suit” is possibly the most 70s thing ever. It’s a beige woolen poncho, with match­ing beige trousers.

YEAH! MY VERY OWN POTATO!!!!