This is a single pattern within the Legacy Collection.
An unapollegetically queer digital zine and knitwear collection that that tells the stories of Black Cowboys.
To purchase all three patterns and the accompanying digital zine of historical biographies, a curated playlist, and poetry, please visit my website. motherofpurl.net

Bandanas had multiple uses for cowboys, they were an important symbol in the fight for workers rights in the coal miners movement, They obscure the identity of land protectors, and they’re used for flagging in the queer community.

The term redneck was popularized during the miners movement to unionize in 1921, 10,000 miners marked by a red bandanna around their neck, protested and rioted to secure workers rights in one of the largest armed uprisings in labor history.

The bandanna is knit flat in an allover lace pattern and seamed.

The pattern uses approximately 400 yards of fingering weight yarn in an 80% merino wool 20% silk