Viking Knits & Ancient Ornaments

Ever since her ground-breaking book Viking Patterns for Knitting was published, Elsebeth Lavold has been recognised as one of the world’s leading experts on cabling. In the book, described as “an indispensable milestone in 20th century knitting literature”, she introduces her own innovation, using lifted increases to create interlace patterns instead of just to shape garments, and to bring new life to the ornamental heritage of the Vikings as adornment on modern knitwear.

With more than a decade of added experience and continued research, she is now ready to take the concept a step further. Still firmly based in her Scandinavian roots, she has studied cultures from all over the globe to find similar types of patterns. This has resulted in a fascinating compilation of ornamental expressions, ancient as well as contemporary, and just as in Viking Patterns for Knitting she uses them as a launch pad for her own unique designs.

Elsebeth genuinely enjoys sharing her knowledge. In addition to the abundance of beautiful garments presented in the book with complete instructions, she has analysed a huge number of pattern types and displays them in both swatch and chart form, to allow you to make your own designs based on her research.

Book Contents

Foreword: A Small World of Infinite Size
Follow the Threads
Read This Before You Knit    
Loops
Rings & Chains
Little Knots and Fourknots
Threeknot
Overhand Knot
S-hook
Braiding
The Grammar of Viking Cables
Abbreviations
Creating Cable Patterns
Technical Information
Reading Charts
Chart symbols
The Lifted Increases used in Viking Knits Designs
The Patterns
Acknowledgements
My Heartfelt Thanks