Whether you just started knitting or are an old hand, Knitting Traditions provides some context for the journey—we are, after all, following the paths created by master knitters of the past. For example, did you know fourteenth-century Italian artists painted pictures of the Madonna knitting? Knitting is just steeped in tradition!

Here's a glimpse of Knitting Traditions:

• Learn how Peruvians used cactus thorns as needles to fashion exquisite tiny figures.


• See a glove with a romantic history knitted in Sweden during the sixteenth century.


• Explore the brilliance of Andean knitting, using the traditional zigzag intarsia method to work small spots of color.


• Discover the "art knitting" produced by German designers in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Plus learn a new technique: knitting socks two at a time, one inside the other!

The Knitting Traditions contributors are a veritable "Who's Who" of late-twentieth- and early-twenty-first-century knitting designers. Among them are Anna Zilboorg (her vividly colorful Turkish stockings are on the cover), Priscilla Gibson-Roberts, Nancy Bush, Galina Khmeleva, Mary Walker Phillips, and many more.