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Girl from Dalecarlia knitting. Cabbage Margit (Stickande kulla. Kål-Margit) by Anders Zorn (1901) portraits a woman from Dalarna knitting in this technique. Twined knitting (also known as two-end knitting) is a traditional Scandinavian knitting technique. It refers to knitting where two strands of yarn are knitted into the fabric alternatively ...
Sheila McGregor is a Scottish fibre artist, author, and historian who published The Complete Book of Traditional Scandinavian Knitting and The Complete Book of Traditional Fair Isle Knitting. She has also worked on a series called Culture and Language of which seven volumes have been published from 2017 to 2022.
The heritage of Norwegian knitting has been preserved, documented and translated into English language history, and pattern books, that are available to modern knitters, mostly notably by the author Annemor Sundbø. The yarn factory Rauma Ullvarefabrikk has also released a substantial number of Norwegian knitting patterns translated into English.
In Norwegian knitting, a selburose (Norwegian: [ˈsæ̀ɽbʉˌɾuːsə]) is a knitted rose pattern in the shape of a regular octagram. It is traditionally used for winter clothing such as the Selbu mitten ( selbuvott ) and sweaters ( lusekofte , lopapeysa and mariusgenser ).
Their knitwear designs draw both on traditional Scandinavian and on contemporary influences. Julekuler, their book of patterns for knitting woolen Christmas balls, sold more than 50,000 copies in Norway, and has been translated into several languages including English, where it is called 55 Christmas Balls to Knit. [1]
Alice Starmore (née Alice Matheson) is a professional needleworker, knitting designer, photographer and writer, born in Stornoway, Western Isles, Scotland.As an author she is best known for her widely-read Alice Starmore's Book of Fair Isle Knitting, a guide to the complex technique of knitting pullovers and other items using a palette of five colours, on which she is an expert.