Ever since her ground-breaking book Viking Patterns for Knitting was published, Elsebeth Lavold has been recognized as one of the world's leading experts on cabling. In the book, described as an indispensable milestone in 20th century knitting literature, she introduces her own innovation, using lifted increases to create interlace patterns instead of just to shape garments, and to bring new life to the ornamental heritage of the Vikings as adornment on modern knitwear. With more than a decade of added experience and continued research, she took the concept a step further. Still firmly based in her Scandinavian roots, she has studied cultures from all over the globe to find similar types of patterns. This resulted in a fascinating compilation of ornamental expressions, ancient as well as contemporary, and just as in Viking Patterns for Knitting she uses them as a launch pad for her own unique designs. Elsebeth genuinely enjoys sharing her knowledge. In addition to the abundance of beautiful garments presented in the book with complete instructions, she has analyzed a huge number of pattern types and displays them in both swatch and chart form, to allow you to make your own designs based on her research. Pattern corrections
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Foreword
Follow the Threads
Read This Before You Knit
About the Patterns
Sizes and Making Changes
Gauge
Yarns and Needles
Pattern References
Care Errors
Loops
Wing Loops
Twisted Loops
Rusila
Vendel Loop
Herkja
Lillgjars
Osk
Rings & Chains
Rings
Chains
Tova
Twisted Rings
Signild
Looped Rings
Fulla
Heidrun
Bjars
Oddrun
Little Knot and Fourknot
Little knot
Lofn
Fourknot
Jord
Fourknot, Little Knot and Swastika
Threeknot
Eir
Elissf
Fyrunga
Overhand Knit
Dalby
Kata
S-hook
Arnhild
Hofvarpnir
Jarnsaxa
S-Hook Horizontal
Disa
Braiding
Two bands
Three Bands
Four bands
Langlif
Six bands
Mist
Unn
Unn child's sizes
The Grammar of Viking Cables
Abbreviations
Creating Cable Patterns
Technical Information
Reading Charts
Chart Symbols
The Lifted Increases used in Viking Knit Designs
The Patterns
Acknowledgments
My Heartfelt Thanks
