Celebrate Knitting's Rich History with 45 Timeless Projects From Around the World

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February 17, 2011

From the Past and Around the World Get 45 Timeless Projects with PieceWork's second special issue of Knitting Traditions OR Download Now! NEW! Knitting Traditions, Winter 2011 The popular special issue is back and better than ever! Celebrate knitting’s rich history and the knitters who came before us with 148 pages chock-full of projects from around the world. Take a journey through the various cultures and diverse geographic areas where people have been knitting for centuries. Explore some of the world’s oldest knitting: Finely knitted blue-and-white cotton stockings dating to the eleventh century from Islamic countries south of the Mediterranean Whimsical figure purses made by Andean artisans Intricate gloves created by knitters in England’s Dales Late-nineteenth-century American lace knitting by a man serving a life sentence for murder in Arizona Find the story behind some of knitting’s more obscure te chniques: Haute couture designer Elsa Schiaparelli’s “Armenian Knitting” Shagging, a New England knitters’ method of adding resilience and warmth to mittens and gloves Nålbinding, a looping technique that predates knitting by centuries Pick up your needles and pass on your own legacy for tomorrow’s knitters! Order your copy of Knitting Traditions, Winter 2011 today. Hurry! The print edition of this special issue is sure to sell-out, order yours before it's gone!

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Knitting Traditions 2010: Digital Edition Get instant knitting gratification with this new digital edition of last year's best-seller. This popular sold-out issue presents 43 projects—socks, shawls and scarves, items for baby, a variety of hand coverings, hats, squares and edgings, and finger puppets—each with a fascinating story that provides historical context. Here's just a taste of the rich history you'll find inside: Fourteenth-century Italian artists painted pictures of the Madonna knitting. Swedish knitters have been using the two-end technique since at least the seventeenth century. By the mid-eighteenth century, Russian shawls from Orenburg achieved international status. Prolific Victorian knitters fashioned all sorts of knitted items in the nineteenth century.

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