The Complete Book of Traditional Fair Isle Knitting

By Sheila McGregor

Book Overview

Fair Isle knitting, a colorful, patterned form of knitting, was named for the British island on which it was developed during the 19th C-an outlying island of the Shetland group off the north east rip... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684176033
• ISBN13: 9780684176031
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

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With over 50 pages of black and white graphs of Fair Isle patterns, plus a section on Background and Origins and with intermittent color photographs of finished knit products throughout the text, this book provides encyclopedic knowledge for all serious knitters.