{"product_id":"knitting-traditions-2010-digital-edition","title":"Knitting Traditions, 2010 Digital Edition","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; COLOR: #333333\"\u003eIndulge your passion for knitting with \u003ci\u003eKnitting Traditions\u003c\/i\u003e! This 148-page special publication from \u003ci\u003ePieceWork\u003c\/i\u003e magazine presents more than 40 projects--socks, shawls and scarves, items for baby, a variety of hand coverings, hats,  squares and edgings, and finger puppets--each with a story that provides historical context. Here are just a few examples: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; COLOR: black\"\u003ePeruvians used a technique--knitting's precursor--called cross looping or needleknitting to fashion exquisite, tiny figures, using cactus thorns as needles, between 200 \u003cspan style=\"FONT-VARIANT: small-caps\"\u003eB.C. \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan style=\"FONT-VARIANT: small-caps\"\u003e A.D. \u003c\/span\u003e200. Fourteenth-century Italian artists painted pictures of the Madonna knitting. A glove with a romantic history knitted in Sweden during the sixteenth-century is preserved in a museum. 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. German designers were producing hundreds of patterns for \"art knitting\" in the early decades of the twentieth century. And a veritable \"Who's Who\" of late-twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century knitting designers share their passion within these pages! \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe collection includes 148 beautifully photographed and project-packed pages and \u003cstrong\u003e43 timeless projects \u003c\/strong\u003ethat knitters will love.  This issue includes:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cdiv align=\"left\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSmall projects - \u003c\/strong\u003ebags, caps, mittens, gloves, edgings and trims. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cdiv align=\"left\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTechniques - \u003c\/strong\u003eSwedish two-end knitting, Native American sweater knitting, and more. \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cdiv align=\"left\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSocks Galore -\u003c\/strong\u003e including how to knit two at once, one inside the other! \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cdiv align=\"left\"\u003eAnd of course, much more....... \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Long Thread Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54687927697692,"sku":"smn1791803421778","price":9.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0926\/7078\/7868\/files\/knitting-traditions-2010-digital-edition_1.jpg?v=1791803428","url":"https:\/\/www.blossomandbay.shop\/products\/knitting-traditions-2010-digital-edition","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}