Hi Jacquie
Google 'Knitting Estonia' and you get lots of interesting sites
including:
http://www.einst.ee/publications/crafts_and_arts/socks.html
which answers your question about Estonian 'fair isle'
http://www.knittingbeyondthehebrides.org/lace/estonian.html
http://www.dominiqueknitting.blogspot.com/
are interesting too.
Brenda
On 29 Aug 2007, at 18:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of my friends who I meet only a couple of times a year brought a
scarf/
shawl to show me. About 1' wide and 3' long it was knited in a sort
of fan
stitch grafted together in the centre; it probably dates way back.
She has
just holidayed in Shetland and they said it was just like their lace,
but they
thought it's odd it's done in pastel coloured stripes. However, her
family was
in Estonia (she is technically Swedish) and I wondered if it could
come from
there as that also has a lace knitting tradition, I think, and I
wondered if
this site would answer the question.
Also, does anyone know if there is a 'Fairisle' type knitting
traditional to
Estonia as she also has a very old pair of mittens with an imperial
eagle on
the backs and a small geometric pattern on the rest.
Brenda in Allhallows, Kent
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html
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