Vogue Knitting: American Collection - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1573890200 ISBN 13: 9781573890205

Publisher: Sixth&Spring Books, 2000

Synopsis

“Designs by today’s most talented American designers.”—Publishers Weekly. “From ten of this country’s best knitwear designers...four or five patterns [each]... along with an essay on their careers and how they entered the field of knitwear design...patterns have been reworked to include yarns available now. Good selection.”—Library Journal. “Fabulous collection.”—Vogue Knitting International.

About this title

From Library Journal

Retrospective pattern collections such as this one are of particular interest to libraries, because often they do not have easy access to the magazines in which the patterns were originally published and a hardcover pattern collection will stand up to wear better than a single issue of a magazine. This collection includes patterns from ten of this country's best knitwear designers: Meg Swansen, Elizabeth Zimmermann, Norah Gaughan, Lily Chin, Deborah Newton, Pam Allen, Nicky Epstein, Kristin Nicholas, Mari Lynn Patrick, and Michele Rose. The book features four or five patterns from each designer, along with an essay on their careers and how they entered the field of knitwear design. The more than 50 patterns range in date from the first Aran pattern commercially published in the United States (1958) to Chin's Reversible Rib Shawl published in the Winter 99/00 issue of Vogue Knitting. All patterns have been reworked to include yarns available now. Good selection for large public libraries and knitting collections.
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

Vogue Knitting editor-in-chief Trisha Malcolm selects patterns from the top 10 American designers featured in the magazine. There's a mother-and-daughter publishing team, a Maine native with no formal design background, a Yale grad who maj ored in fine arts and economics--and no one who would give up knitting as a hobby or as a career. Except for 2 patterns, all of the more than 50 of them are targeted to the intermediate or experienced knitter. Yet even rank beginners can imagine a multif loral tapestry shawl, gauntlet cabled gloves and hat, and a dragonfly pullover. Biographies of each woman artist help inspire r eader, as do the full-color photographs. Barbara Jacobs
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Edition details

• Publisher: Sixth&Spring Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1573890200
• ISBN 13: 9781573890205
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Vogue Knitting Magazine