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The first fully detailed, full-color, comprehensive history of knitting in America from Colonial times to the present, Knitting America conveys the social and historical realities that the craft embodied as well as the emotional narrative that unfolded at the hands of the nation’s knitters. Also included are twelve historic knitting patterns for today’s knitters. With vintage pattern booklets, posters, postcards, black-and-white historical photographs, and contemporary color photographs of knitted pieces in private collections and in museums, Knitting America comprises a knitted history of American society.
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