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Although tensioning the yarn through a pin or around the neck has been practiced since ancient times, many knitters are not familiar with the technique, which also entails holding and throwing the yarn in a different way.
See how a poster depicting traditional costumes creates inspiration.
Rediscover a tool used to create a tubular or flat fabric by repeatedly interlocking loops of yarn.
Whether you recognize the day in February, June, or September there is always time for lace!
A series of three knitted panels, using embroidery for details, are fiber windows onto landscapes important to the author and her family.
Niebling’s designs are not for the faint of heart or the impatient knitter. Some of his larger table covers contain as many as 300 rounds, with the outer rounds comprising hundreds of stitches, all to be worked in fine thread from pages of complex charts.
Though varied in style and material, the fichu was an important fashion accessory during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
What did it mean to be a member of a knitting guild during the 1500s? Who was responsible for crafting Eleonora di Toledo’s burial stockings?
Learn how the love of adornment inspired our summer Embellishment issue!