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Cargando... Knitting Counterpanes: Traditional Coverlet Patterns for Contemporary Knitters (edición 1989)por Mary Walker Phillips
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Counterpanes are bed coverings. This book focuses on knit counterpanes, although the word can by used synonymously with the word quilt. Phillips' book is both a historical survey of counterpanes found in museums worldwide and a how-to book, with line by line knitting instructions. The book was supported with a Visual Artists Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. In her acknowledgments she gives special thanks to the New York Public Library "whose superb collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century needlework books and pamphlets I used extensively". She also thanks a long list of museums as well. The patterns are divided into the following chapters: (1) Flat patterns; (2) Embossed Patterns; (3) Strip patterns; (4) Fans and shell patterns; (5) Lace and border patterns. Some of the patterns have line by line instructions written out; others are charted. Each is accompanied by a b& w photo. Phillips also provides instructions for joining together panes of different shapes into the overall counterpane. For the student of fabric creation, this is wonderful book. The knitting patterns are for the more experienced knitter. This is a well written, interesting book. It is not surprising that it fetches such high prices in the used book market. Mary Walker Phillips nearly single-handedly brought 19th-century American counterpanes — bed coverings — to the attention of modern knitters. Expanded with dozens of brand-new charts, this revised edition features 46 counterpane patterns as well as 32 lace edgings and borders that Phillips discovered in museums, private collections, and magazines. "A terrific book." — Knitter's Magazine. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Mary Walker Phillips nearly single-handedly brought nineteenth-century counterpanes, or bedspreads, to the attention of modern knitters. This book is the product of her international searches of museums, private collections, and magazines, a quest that yielded a choice selection of 46 counterpane patterns as well as 32 lace edgings and borders. Expanded with dozens of brand-new charts, this revised edition of Phillips' influential work makes the patterns even more accessible to knitters of all levels.""This is a terrific book,"" noted Knitter's Magazine, adding that ""the directions, photos, and general production are crisp and clean, just like its subject."" The patterns are grouped into chapters by design effect. Within each chapter, they proceed logically from simplest to most complex. Each is accompanied by a photo of its component elements, which the author knitted especially for this book. The patterns include assembly diagrams where needed as well as possible variations. Beginners, experts, and everyone in between will find this volume a splendid resource of versatile patterns. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The illustrations and pics are great, the patterns are well written...overall, this was a fantastic addition to my knitting library. ( )