Knitting out of Africa by Marianne Isager

By Marianne Isager

Beautiful and old African carpets, baskets, and different textiles give you the layout proposal for those sixteen subtle knitted cardigans, pullovers, and sweater vests. meant for pro knitters, those initiatives use domino, double knitting, entrelac, intarsia, and stranded two-color ideas labored in fingering-weight yarns. The Shoowa Vest, the African Domino Pullover, and the Arrowheads Cropped Pullover blow their own horns fancy sewing, whereas different designs function shades borrowed from the mud-dried materials of Mali, the block styles of Ghana, or motifs from Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Zaire, and Zimbabwe. African animals beautify the Giraffe Vest and Zebra Cardigan, and somewhere else jumping antelope and birds in flight are utilized in repeating patterns.

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