Folk Vests: 25 knitting patterns & tales from around the world

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Die Beschreibungen der einzelnen Muster sind gut und ausführlich, zu jeder Weste gibt es eine kleine Geschichte. Both functional and decorative, these wonderful projects for men’s and women’s vests are accompanied by folk stories and regional histories from the country of the design’s origin, including Tibet, Scandinavia, Guatemala, Japan, North America, and many others. Vests - they're festive, warm, easy fitting, and practical - and they're an important part of folkwear traditions world-wide.

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Ukrainian Hutsuls used to richly decorate their Keptars – something that is also reflected in the way we have done the embroidery on our Folk Cropped Keptar Vests but in a modern way. In addition to classic a British vest, the Sakiori vest from Japan, Irish Cardigan and the Kasai vest are already on my "to do" list.

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With every vest the knitter has the opportunity to not only do color-knitting or work beautiful textures, but also learn about the area the vest is from, the history, the culture and it's folklore. While the vest pattern is knit from commercially available Shetland yarn, you could, as a spinner and dyer, make your own genuine lichen dye or onion skin dyed yarn to knit this vest.I especially like the color photos of the vests, which help me to visualize what my finished garment will look like. Used books have different signs of use and might not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material.

Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. Not only are the designs stunning - some simple, some more demanding; the attention to detail is incredibly clear - probably the best I've seen. In the majority of cases, the designer has not bothered to calculate appropriate pattern changes for the different sizes, but has chosen to change the guage (and therefore needle size) instead.Ukrainian Hutsuls used to richly decorate their Keptars – something that is also reflected in the way we have done the embroidery on our Folk Keptar Vest but in a modern way. little drawings which tell me how long and wide the body is, how tall and wide the armhole is, and the book would be perfect.