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From this article in the Saturday Guardian 11/04/15:“The secret history of Monopoly: the capitalist board game’s leftwing origins. In 1903, a leftwing feminist called Lizzy Magie patented the board game that we now know as Monopoly – but she never gets the credit. Now a new book aims to put that right.”
Magie’s original board
design for the Landlord’s Game, which she patented in 1903. Photograph: United
States Patent and Trademark Office
Sample design
Last week’s
sample took ages… and I didn’t have
much time to spare this week. I nearly settled on simple black machine
embroidery on white, with squiggles for the writing, but I fancied something
completely different. Inventing a crochet square loosely based on the monopoly
board didn’t take long, it’s so quick and easy to try a few stitches and pull
them down again. Adding a second colour on the surface as I went along was the
trickiest bit to work out.
1 comment:
That's fascinating! Love the Beano sample too.
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