Traditional Danish Sweaters

200 Stars and Other Classic Motifs from Historic Sweaters

£22.95

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ISBN: 9781570769245

PUBLICATION DATE: June 10, 2021

CATEGORY: Craft

BINDING: Hardback

EXTENT: 256 pages

Follow step-by-step instructions as you reconstruct traditional Danish sweaters in contemporary sizes and work traditionally-inspired patterns for a stole, top, tunic, and more—or use these motifs, edgings, and decorative panels in projects of your own design.

From a little-known chapter of knitting history comes the Danish “night sweater”—part of women’s traditional dress in the 1800s, these sweaters have long been overlooked in surveys of Scandinavian handcrafting and design. But celebrated Danish knitting expert Vivian Høxbro has brought together diligent research, comprehensive charts, and her own painstaking efforts to reconstruct these carefully-preserved garments to create a unique collection of single-colour relief patterns.

Within, knitted, purled and crossed stitches form hundreds of classic star motifs, edgings, horizontal and vertical pattern panels and striking “traveling stitch” designs. Learn the history of night sweaters in Denmark, with a rundown of special techniques and regional knitting practices, and then dive into a neatly-organised library of 200 charts for motifs of all kinds.

Meet the author Vivian Høxbro

Vivian Høxbro has worked as a knitwear designer for over 35 years, both self-employed and for yarn companies. She has written 12 knitting books, some of which have been published in Norway, Japan, and the USA— including Traditional Danish Sweaters, published in 2019 by Trafalgar Square Books. Since then, she has taught and given lectures in Scandinavia, as well as in the USA and Japan, and is working to make Denmark’s first knitting museum in Stubbekøbing a reality. Vivian currently resides in Stubbekøbing, Sweden.

Books by Vivian Høxbro

Vivian Hoxbro’s Knitting Handbook

Vivian Høxbro

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