Knitting in the Old Way: Designs and Techniques from Ethnic Sweaters by Priscilla A. Gibson-Roberts

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Knitting in the Old Way: Designs and Techniques from Ethnic Sweaters

by Priscilla A. Gibson-Roberts

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Indispensible inventory of traditional designs. Not a pattern book, but a guide to ethnic sweaters and traditional construction methods for thinking knitters. (

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Knitting in the Old Way is a clear and comprehensive guide to traditional and ethnic knitting skills. It begins by presenting fifteen timeless sweater shapes and then teaches color and texture techniques.

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