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Wrapped in Lace: Knitted Heirloom Designs from Around the World By Margaret Stove List Price: $26.95 Price: $17.79 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $25. Details Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Ships from and sold by Amazon.com 46 new or used available from $16.81 Average customer review: (15 customer reviews)

Product Description

The spectacular knitted lace designs of New Zealand designer Margaret Stove are truly the pinnacle of the craft. InWrapped in Lace, dive into Margaret’s love fo learning and creating knitted lace, then begin your own journey to master lace knitting with 12 original patterns.

To appreciate the history of knitted lace, follow Margaret’s quest to design and knit the legendary “wedding ring shawl”—a large lace shawl so fine and delicate that it can be drawn through a wedding ring.Wrapped in Laceshares the art of designing patterns and the characteristics of lace traditions from around the world.

Framed by an engaging narrative of learning to create knitted lace from scratch,Wrapped in Lacedescribes each set of lace techniques, patterns, and traditions in depth and offers Margaret’s spectacular patterns for lace shawls, stoles, and scarves. These projects illustrate knitted lace from the Faroe Islands, Shetland Islands, Orenburg, Estonia, and lace motifs of New Zealand, as well as more contemporary European work. As an added bonus,Wrapped in Laceincludes Margaret’s tips for preserving, restoring, and remaking knitted lace heirlooms.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #54816 in Books
• Published on: 2010-11-23
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .51" h x 8.55" w x 8.95" l, 1.26 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781596682276
• Condition: New
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Editorial Reviews

Review
New Zeaklander Margaret Stove is a doyenne of knitted lace, and has spent her life teaching and developing the spinning of gossamer yarn through her company Artisan Lace. This book is an exploration of designs and traditions, and is a must-read for any serious lace knitter. The book represents her wish to share with others all she has learnt about knitted lace over her long career. Each intricate, beautiful garment is accompanied by detailed writings on how the design came about, referring to special pieces in Margaret's collection, how she went about selecting stitch patterns and edgings, and providing expert tips to produce flawless results. She also explores how knitted lace holds such an important place in family histories, and this book will inspire you to create your own heirloom pieces that will be passed down through the generations.-The Knitter
About the Author

Margaret Stove is a leading expert of handknitted superfine lace. Examples of her work are found in many galleries and private collections throughout the world. A passion for knitting and later designing lace led Stove to explore techniques for spinning lace yarns. She teaches lace knitting and spinning for lace internationally, and her line of New Zealand Merino lace yarn and patterns is distributed in the United States and throughout the world.