Sunday, August 29, 2010

[HOW TO KNIT] Traditional Socks From Iraq: How To Knit A Tapered Toe With A Vertical Cast On

HOW TO KNIT has posted a new item, 'Traditional Socks From Iraq: How To Knit A
Tapered Toe With A Vertical Cast On'







Master knitter Betsy Tuttle demonstrates the surprisingly complex construction
underpinning a "folk craft." This pair of Iraqi socks is among the 13000 objects
in the Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, which specializes in ethnographic textiles. We hope you enjoy
this technical challenge and that your creative vision is sparked when [...]

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