Status
Available
Description
Readers are led step-by-step through the history and techniques of creating beautiful and rare Russian heirloom shawls with this detailed guide.
Publication
Interweave Press (1998), 144 pages
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ISBN
1883010411 / 9781883010416
User reviews
LibraryThing member ovistine
In addition to a book that teaches you how to plan and knit gorgeous lace shawls (usually with symmetrical repeats), this book covers the history of Orenberg lace knitting -- a form of knitting that was historically performed by the knitters of Orenberg, before and after the rise of the Soviet
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Union. (It's interesting to see that despite the "requirements" ordered by the government, knitters could also sell certain shawls at the free market in Orenberg, and that a deliberate decision was made *not* to close down those free markets for fear of allowing the black market to preference people less involved with the actual construction of the shawls.) Show Less
LibraryThing member ashleytylerjohn
I feel my star system works better for novels. If Middlemarch is a 5, it's hard to give Gossamer Webs more than a 3, but at the same time this is very likely to be the best available book on Orenburg Lace Shawls, period! I can imagine a hypothetical unwritten book (about Orenburg Lace shawls) that
This is simply a good, clear book about both the cultural milieu that produces the shawls, and the strategies for making your own (I appreciate that it's not just pattern, pattern, pattern--I'm so tired of so-called knitting "books" that turn out to be just patterns. Those aren't books! They're bound instructions, but that's not a book!)
(Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s).
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is so compelling and moving that not only do I rush home from work to read on, but I urge it into the hands of non-knitters because it's such a good book they too will be changed by it--and this isn't that. This is simply a good, clear book about both the cultural milieu that produces the shawls, and the strategies for making your own (I appreciate that it's not just pattern, pattern, pattern--I'm so tired of so-called knitting "books" that turn out to be just patterns. Those aren't books! They're bound instructions, but that's not a book!)
(Note: 5 stars = amazing, wonderful, 4 = very good book, 3 = decent read, 2 = disappointing, 1 = awful, just awful. I'm fairly good at picking for myself so end up with a lot of 4s).
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Original language
English