A beautifully written and scholarly look at the lives and the knitting of women on the tiny Shetland island of Fair Isle. This book traces the development of Fair Isle knitting from folk craft to...
Richard Rutt traces the mysterious history of this craft from ancient times to the present, examining museum collections, literary evidence and popular legends.
Lela Nargi traveled across the country interviewing knitters at the beginning of the knitting craze. While learning how to knit herself, Nargi discovered the profound importance knitting has in the...
Drawn from diaries, letters and personal reminiscences, No Idle Hands tells an intimate and sometimes hair-raising story of hand knitting in America from Colonial times onward. Women knit through...
The Secret Language of Knitters is a humorous dictionary of knitting terms. Knitters use terms like "frog", and "WIP". Mary Beth explains them all, from A-Z, with humor and wit, drawing on knitting...
