Product Description

Drawing on her extensive experience as a teacher and practitioner, Francoise Tellier-Loumagne has assembled a creative and inventive overview of stitches and fabrics, both hand-knitted and machine-made, presenting hundreds of sumptuous ways of working with yarn, from silk thread to Shetland wool. Other books propose patterns to copy; this book uses basic patterns as points of departure, opening up endless possibilities for sophisticated knitting designs. The book is organized by fabric types: simple knits, jacquards, fine jersey knits, interlock, open-work and many others. It covers hand knitting, domestic machine knitting and industrial knitting, explaining the relevant techniques and notation for each. The author encourages the reader to be innovative and to experiment with the various techniques, drawing inspiration from the natural world and one's personal surroundings: pebbles on the sand, autumn leaves, snow sparkling in the sun, weeds and grasses bending in the wind. Every type of stitch that she describes is accompanied by enlarged photos of the textiles, detailed diagrams and written instructions. The yarns used here are highly textural and attractive, which further encourages experimentation with yarn combinations and knitting techniques. The book will appeal to domestic knitters, professional knit designers, textile designers and students, and be a source of inspiration to anyone working with or interested in knitted textiles.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28368 in Books
• Published on: 2005-06-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

About the Author
Francoise Tellier-Loumagne has taught textile and knit design for more than thirty years.

Customer Reviews

Great book but title misleading( as previous reviewer said)
As a textile student, I was hoping or rather expecting the book to show techniques like many knitting books I have purchased before.
HOWEVER I found the book purly inspirational due to the knitting and the photographs in which the knitting has taken inspiration from. Its definately a creative book, which personally for me has given me tons of ideas for my work and inspired me so to knit than other knitting books I have looked at.
This book is fantastic for students, as it contains so many ideas and different ways of knitting to get the marks needed on a textile course. An idea would be to buy a simple 'how to knit' book before purchasing this and as your skills develop, this book would be perfect for you. I would definately recommend it.

Magnificent book, misleadingly titled
Having seen some of the author's freeform handknitting I bought this sight-unseen (before the publisher's synopsis was posted). This is translated from Mailles, les mouvements du fil, which is literally Stitches, the passage of yarn. The book is about stitch structures and most of the examples are machine-knitted. The core of the book is the stunning photos of knitted samples, juxtaposed with the textures of nature. Structures are elucidated by graph. A chapter to show rudimentary techniques would not equip a novice to reproduce the stitches. There are no garments or finished items here. My only quibble would be that choice of yarns and their impact on finished textiles are barely touched on.I suggest that this book is essential for textile students and innovative designers. It is not for the average home knitter.

Pure inspiration
This book is essential for textile students.
The first thing I love about this book are the photographs of natural landscapes and textures that could be translated into knit. It really opened up a whole new way of looking at things for me and has shaped the way I take photographs for my projects.
Secondly I love the pictures of the knitted samples. Everytime I look through this book I find something I haven't spotted before -I've owned it for a couple of years and it has never been neglected for more than a few weeks.
I really think the idea for this book was to collect samples that the reader would have no idea how to recreate at first- encouraging experimental development which I've found never leads you to a precise reproduction, coaxing you into creating even more exciting ideas!
I was a bit worried about buying this book because it is slightly more exspensive than the average textile book. But believe me- it is well worth the money- twice over!