Knitting America: A Glorious Heritage from Warm Socks to High Art - Hardcover

Strawn, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0760326215 ISBN 13: 9780760326213

Verlag: Voyageur Press, 2007

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Book by Strawn Susan M

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This fascinating book is jam-packed with everything you could wish to know about the history of knitting in America. Knitting isn't embedded in history in America as it is in Europe, and the fact that it has often been dismissed as women's work means it hasn't been recorded as meticulosly as more manly pursuits. Susan Straw has collected a treasure trove of hard-won information, Covering American Knitting from colonial days through to the present, the story is illuminated by images of knitters from all walks of life as well as historical documents, including a letter from a woman who sent hand-knitted socks to President Lincoln! We love the 20 vintage patterns, annotated so modern knitters can enjoy a piece of history. --Simply knitting, November 2007

It's the heroic stories of women that shine through in this well-researched work...Knitting America takes a humble, prosaic activity, places it squarley in a historical context and shows how courage, love, charity, art, and patriotism found their way into our mittens, socks, sweaters, and lives --Vouge Knitting

Any knitter would be happy to move some yarn aside to make room on her coffee table for Knitting America, a big, beautifull book on knitting history filled with gorgeous glossy photos, old ads, and even a few vintage patterns --Bust

Reseña del editor

The patterns and fabrics of American knitting are an intricate, and intimate, part of the nations history, reflecting the styles and the interests, the concerns and the comforts that touched every homebody, every newborn and newlywed, every homesick patriot in the field.

This is the history that Knitting America celebrates. The first fully detailed, full-color, comprehensive history of knitting in America from colonial times to the present, the book conveys the social and historical realities that the craft embodied as well as the emotional narrative that unfolded at the hands of the nations knitters. With vintage patterns and designs typical of each era, Knitting America comprises a knitted history of American society. Here are the trends and the shortages, the historical happenings and the social movements, the advertising and economic developments that affected knitting and style.

Also included are 20 historic knitting patterns for todays knitters. Beautifully illustrated with vintage pattern booklets, posters, postcards, black-and-white historical photographs, and contemporary color photographs of knitted pieces in private collections and in museums, this book is a treasure of history and craft, an exquisite view of America through the handiwork of its knitters.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Voyageur Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0760326215
• ISBN 13: 9780760326213
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208