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| Knitting America: A Glorious Heritage from Warm Socks to High Art | 
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Sales Rank: 342372
Category: Book
Author: Susan M. Strawn
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Studio: Voyageur Press
Manufacturer: Voyageur Press
Label: Voyageur Press
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.1
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 9.7 x 1
ISBN: 0760326215
Dewey Decimal Number: 746.4320973
EAN: 9780760326213
ASIN: 0760326215
Publication Date: October 15, 2007
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Product Description
The first fully detailed, full-color, comprehensive history of knitting in America from Colonial times to the present, with vintage pattern booklets, posters, postcards, and photos.
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 nice info book on us knitting history November 30, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
great book, if you are into US knitting history, this is a beautiful book for you. Lots of pictures and interesting info, the author has gone to some trouble to check her sources and debunks some knitting myths - Martha Washington amongst them. not so many patterns and not patterns that are not easily available elsewhere - but great info and great photos/images. I would suggest an important addition to any knitting history section of a library (personal or public)
Fabulous! October 27, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
What can I say? This book is a treasure. If you love knitting and are also a history buff, this book is for you. The chapters tell the history of knitting in America in chronological order, tying it deftly with events in American history. The illustrations, vintage photos, and vintage patterns allow you to travel back in time, so to speak, to see and feel how knitters did their craft, why they knit, and how they felt about it. Many of the stories are very touching and reflect knitting sentiment today--historical women knit for the same reasons we do and got the same pleasure out of it. It is also interesting to see the photos of vintage knitting pieces conserved in museum collections. For example, you can see how sock shapes and styles have changed over the years, or how sweater shapes have changes. Most touching to me were the dozens of historical photographs of women knitting. These were real women, with their lives, issues, experience of their times, and their knitting--which could either be a chore or a pleasure. Knitting tied women together (or should I say, "knit women together"?). These ladies were just like us. The vintage ads for knitting needles, patterns and materials were also of great interest, not only for their content, but for how much these items cost in past times (often pennies!). The text is charmingly and clearly written, and the stories the author tells just carry you along. She even interjects poems and songs of the times that dealt with knitting. All in all, this is a fabulous book. If you love knitting, and want to feel the kinship that ties all knitters together over centuries, don't miss this book.
 a tad dry, but interesting nonetheless May 19, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A lovely book for the lover of history and knitting. It combines the two in a rather dry way, but the photos and patterns are captivating.
Knitting America April 3, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
In addition to being an alternative look at the history of our country, this book has become an enjoyable coffee table book - for everyone. Excellent writing and the pictures alone are worth the purchase. Thank you!
 Disappointing March 1, 2008
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
I had such high hopes for this book. There are not that many books that look at knitting from a historical perspective, and this one promised to do so with lots of illustrations. Unfortunately, the writer's credibility as a serious historian is lost on the first page when she states that the English settlement at Jamestown, Virginia did not last and moves on to Massachusetts as the locale of the first permanent English settlement in America. Any child in elementary school in America would recognize that this is just wrong. Jamestown was indeed the first permanent English settlement in America and continued to thrive for many years after its establishment. I was left baffled--did she confuse Jamestown with the Roanoke Island, North Carolina colony from the 16th Century that did not survive--and how could her editors not catch this glaring error on the first page of text? Notwithstanding this serious and very basic historical error, I decided to muscle on through the book. The remainder of the book, while written in serviceable prose, could never be described as engaging and certainly not entertaining. And I can't say much for her scholarship, which seems to consist mostly of having looked at a lot of commercially published pattern books through the 20th Century and deducing what she thinks knitting was all about from those. Most of the illustrations come from these commercial pattern books as well. Finally, this book has no serious chops as a pattern book--it doesn't include any pattern after WWII and, as another reviewer has indicated, provides no insight to a modern reader or knitter on how to interpret the early 20th century patterns, which are written very differently than modern patterns. All in all a disappointment--not a good history book, not a good overview of knitting as a cultural, historical or social phenomenon, not a very good coffee table book and certainly not a very good pattern book.
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