STITCHES IN TIME by Sue Brradley

OVER 70 KNITWEAR PATTERNS INSPIRED BY THE PAST

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Features knitwear designs that draw on different historical periods for their inspiration, including Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece and Rome, Byzantium, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the 18th century, the Victorian era and the 1920s, 30s and 40s.

There are wide collared Egyptian sweaters decorated with hieroglyphs, tunic shaped Roman sweaters with coins and rhinestones, and narrow waisted Renaissance sweaters in thrilling colours inspired by the shape of the doublet. Other designs come gradually up to date by way of the refinement of the eighteenth century to the throwaway elegance of the 1940s. Each garment is designed to appeal to the individualist and is refreshingly independent of seasons or fast changing fashion trends.