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by Shelagh Hollingworth
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ISBN: 048644807X Dover Publications Price: $14.95 |
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Prized around the world in the form of the "Irish fisherman's sweater," Aran knitting features distinctive, highly textured patterns of cables and ropes. Suitable for novices as well as for experienced knitters, this guide offers more than 20 patterns, illustrated by 117 close-up photographs: traditional fisherman's sweater; family sweater, cardigans, and more.
Table of Contents for Traditional Aran Knitting
| Foreword | |||||||
| Introduction | |||||||
| 1. About the Aran Islands | |||||||
| 2. Development of Aran knitting | |||||||
| 3. Equipment and working methods | |||||||
| 4. Designing an Aran sweater | |||||||
| 5. Aran pattern stitch samples | |||||||
| 6. The knitting patterns | |||||||
| 1-3. Traditional fishing shirt | |||||||
| 4. Family sweater. Round neck | |||||||
| 5. Family sweater. V-neck | |||||||
| 6. Family sweater. Polo neck | |||||||
| 7. V-neck, raglan-shaped cardigans | |||||||
| 8. Cable-patterned waistcoats | |||||||
| 9. Easy knit jackets | |||||||
| 10. Man's zip-fronted jacket | |||||||
| 11-13. Child's Aran patterned coat, hat and mitts set | |||||||
| 14. Child's sweater with crossover shawl collar | |||||||
| 15. Lady's full length Aran patterned coat | |||||||
| 16. Lady's evening waistcoat | |||||||
| 17. Lady's tabard | |||||||
| 18-20. Lady's hat, mitts and scarf set | |||||||
| 21. Square cushion cover | |||||||
| 22. Oblong cushion cover | |||||||
| 23. Bolster-shaped cushion cover | |||||||
| Conversion chart for knitting needles and crochet hooks | |||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||
| Suppliers | |||||||
| Index |