Knitting in America: Patterns, Profiles, & Stories of America's Leading Artisans

Melanie Falick

ISBN 10: 1885183275 / ISBN 13: 9781885183279

Editore: Artisan, 1996

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Author Melanie Falick traveled thousands of miles to create Knitting in America, an inspiring and revealing portrait of knitters, spinners, dyers, and breeders of fiber-producing animals. The most complete survey yet published on the scope and influence of this vital art form in America, the book profiles many of this country's most fascinating artisans and farmers, and features more than thirty original patterns for adult and child-sized garments designed especially for Knitting in America.

In addition to the designer profiles, the book includes special features on locations such as a musk-oxen farm in Montana, a school in Detroit where children learn to knit before they learn to read, and a New Mexico yarn shop that supplies many of this country's top gallery artists with handspun, naturally dyed fibers.

The thirty-plus patterns in the book range in difficulty from basic to advanced and in style from traditional to contemporary. The patterns are clear, the charts easy to read, and a complete listing of mail-order sources ensures that the patterns can be executed to perfection.

Dalla quarta di copertina: Author Melanie Falick traveled thousands of miles to create this inspiring and revealing portrait of knitters, spinners, dyers, and breeders of fiber-producing animals. With profiles of thirty-eight of this country's most fascinating artisans and farmers, plus more than thrity patterns for adult and child-sized garments that were diesigned especially for the book, Knitting in America is the most complete survey yet published on this vital art form in America.

Featured are such well-known designers as Deborah Newton of Providence, Rhode Island, Meg Swansen of Pittsville, Wisconsin, Nicky Epstein of New York City, and Priscilla Gibson-Roberts of Cedaredge, Colorado. The book also includes special features on locations such as a musk-oxen farm in Montana, a school in Detroit where children learn to knit before they learn to read, and a New Mexico yarn shop that supplies many of this country's top gallery artists with handspun, naturally dyed fibers. Rounding out the collection are profules of Barbara Walker and Mary Walker Phillips, grades dames whose contributions to the art and craft of knitting are, even now, echoed in the works of their younger followers.

The thirty-plus patterns in this book range in difficulty from basic to advanced and in style from traditional to contemporary. The patterns have been meticulously edited for clarity, and a complete list of mail-order sources is provided to ensure that the patterns can be executed to perfection.

MORE THAN 200 FULL-COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS

30 ORIGINAL PATTERNS

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Titolo: Knitting in America: Patterns, Profiles, & ...
Casa editrice: Artisan
Data di pubblicazione: 1996
Legatura: Rilegato
Condizione: Good