Author Melanie Falick traveled thousands of miles to create this inspiring and revealing portrait of knitters, spinners, dyers, and breeders of fiber-producing animals. With profiles of thirty-eight of this country's most fascinating artisans and farmers, plus more than thrity patterns for adult and child-sized garments that were diesigned especially for the book, Knitting in America is the most complete survey yet published on this vital art form in America.
Featured are such well-known designers as Deborah Newton of Providence, Rhode Island, Meg Swansen of Pittsville, Wisconsin, Nicky Epstein of New York City, and Priscilla Gibson-Roberts of Cedaredge, Colorado. The book also includes special features on locations such as a musk-oxen farm in Montana, a school in Detroit where children learn to knit before they learn to read, and a New Mexico yarn shop that supplies many of this country's top gallery artists with handspun, naturally dyed fibers. Rounding out the collection are profules of Barbara Walker and Mary Walker Phillips, grades dames whose contributions to the art and craft of knitting are, even now, echoed in the works of their younger followers.
The thirty-plus patterns in this book range in difficulty from basic to advanced and in style from traditional to contemporary. The patterns have been meticulously edited for clarity, and a complete list of mail-order sources is provided to ensure that the patterns can be executed to perfection.
MORE THAN 200 FULL-COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS
30 ORIGINAL PATTERNS
