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Knit Jon Purl Jon - Knitting History & Essays

Jonathan Lasham
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Essays on knitting history and the lives of everyday knitters.

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Yoke Sweaters Turned Upside Down: Why Today's Are Knitted Top-Down, and Deeper

The yoke sweater is one of the most recognisable shapes in knitting: a plain body and sleeves, with a ring of colourwork around the neck and shoulders. It looks old and traditional, and a lot of knitters link it with Iceland, Scandinavia or...

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The Victorian Stocking: A Finished Leg and a Welsh Heel

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Greenland, Norway, Iceland: How a Collar Became the Yoke Sweater

The circular yoke sweater, with a wide band of multicoloured pattern around the shoulders and a plain body and sleeves below, is one of the most recognisable sweater shapes today, best known from the Icelandic lopapeysa. It was most likely...

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Spinning Linen, a Nålbound Bag & a Cheviot Gradient

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Before the Circular Yoke: Round Yokes on Ordinary Sweaters in the 1930s

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    British knitter and writer in Finland. Essays on knitting and the history behind it, with a particular interest in the lives of the everyday knitters.

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