James Norbury - The Penguin Knitting Book

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Reissued in its original format 2014 Copyright James Norbury, 1957, 2014 Cover design by Heather Standring All rights reserved The moral right of the author has been asserted ISBN: 978-0-241-97126-0 PENGUIN HANDBOOKS
PH 33 This book is written for the experienced knitter as well as the beginner. As well as telling you how to knit, the author gives a large number of patterns for knitted fabrics, and then goes on to suggest what you can knit for every member of the family. Babies coats, pullovers for father, sweaters for the teenager, dresses, jumpers, coats, and cardigans, you will find them all in this aid to better knitting, illustrated with many drawings and photographs of the stitches and garments. One exciting feature of the Penguin Handbook on Knitting is the Fashion Supplement, containing a selection of designs that reflect the fashion trends of the moment. In future editions of the book this section will be changed from time to time to keep the Penguin Knitting Book to the forefront of current knitwear fashion. Let the conversation begin...

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discover more stories like this at Penguin.co.uk For BRYAN CLAYDEN A slight token of friendship for a great fashion designer to come into being, talent alone is not enough: the designer must have the absolute and authoritative genius to impose his or her vision of the needs of the times on the times themselves, so that fashions which a year previously would have been considered outrageous are suddenly a necessity. It is the genius who creates the need, though that need must reflect the unconscious wishes of the moment if the genius is to be accepted, at least by his contemporaries. CECIL BEATON : The Glass of Fashion

The photographs of the different stitches were taken by John Dyson, those of the garments by Peter Clark and John Dyson, and those for the Fashion Supplement by Michael Dunne. The line drawings were made by Pamela Cox.