Knitting in the old way: designs & techniques from ethnic sweaters

Introduction

Origins

Traditional yarns

Equipment

Knitting methods

Techniques

Tools for planning sweaters (Growing a sweater: a sample plan

A sweater diagram showing construction techniques)

An evolution of shapes (Basic blouse

Basic gansey

Steeked jersey

Shaped-steek jersey

Sweater with locked turning stitches at edges

Sweater with laddered openings for sleeves

Sweater with square armholes

Sweater with gussets and saddle shoulders

Sweater with straight saddle shoulders

Sweater with shaped saddle shoulders

Sweater with raglan sleeves

Sweater with full yoke

Sweater with shoulder yoke

Shaped vest

Shaped sweater)

Style alternatives

Color stranding (Norway: Lusekofter ; Fana cardigan ; Coastal jersey ; Modern Norwegian sweaters

Sweden: Ullared jerseys ; Delsbo jacket ; Bjarbo sweater ; Woman's sweater with woven body and knitted sleeves ; Man's jacket with woven body and knitted sleeves ; Bohus sweaters)

Great Britain: Speckled frocks ; Fair Isle sweaters in gansey construction ; Fair Isle sweater shaped with steeks ; Vest with tesselated pattern ; Shetland yoke sweaters

Iceland: Icelanders ; modern Icelandic yoke sweaters

Færoe Islands: Færoe jerseys)

Samiland: Sami-inspired tunic sweater

Cowichan sweaters of Canada: Cowichan pullovers with geometric patterns ; Cowichan cardigan with pictorial motifs

American folk art designs: Folk art vests)

Intarsia (Sweater with two-step intarsia motife

Sweater with yarn-over join

Sweater with invisible join 1 (South American)

Sweater with invisible join 2 (Eastern European)

Modern interpretation of Bolivian patchwork sweater)

Texture (Denmark: Danish brocade blouses, short and long versions ; Amager Island blouse

Great Britain: Early ganseys with simple knit/purl pattern ; Ganseys with extended panels ; Ganseys with vertical panels ; Ganseys with horizontal panels ; Ganseys with continous shoulder straps and sleeves ; Hebridean ganseys

The Netherlands: Dutch fisherman's sweaters, sampler-style ; Dutch fisherman's sweater with single motif

Ireland: Aran fishing shirts ; Aran with square armholes ; Raglan-style Aran

Norway: Two-end jacket of Sunnhordland

Austria and Germany: Woman's Bavarian waistcoat ; Woman's Bavarian vest ; Man's Bavarian vests

Bavarian cardigan ; Tyrolean jackets ; Berchtegaden sweater)

Geometric patterning (Danish farmhand's sweater

Scottish Argyle vest

Finnish basketweave sweater)

Crochet-enhanced kints (Finnish sweater combining knitting and crochet).