Op-art socks : creative effects in sock knitting

✍ Scribed by van der Linden, Stephanie

• Publisher: Interweave
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 159
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Enjoy a fresh new approach to sock knitting! Stephanie van der Linden is a master knitter and shows her technical skills to great effect in Op-Art Socks. A collector of op-art ceramics, she was inspired to translate graphic optical illusions into knitted patterns for socks, replicating their eye-popping effects. Op-Art Socks contains 19 projects. Explore graphic colorwork, textured knitting (knit and purl), shadow knitting, and shifting ribbing to create optical illusions. The book includes black and white swatches of all patterns so that you can readily perceive the op. Read more...

Abstract:

Enjoy a fresh new approach to sock knitting! Stephanie van der Linden is a master knitter, and shows her technical skills to great effect in Op-Art Socks. Also a collector of op-art ceramics, she was inspired to translate graphic optical illusions into knitted patterns for socks, replicating their eye-popping effects. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Title Page
Contents
Introduction
Patterns
Fibonacci
Necker
Herrmann
Albers
Victor
Crest
Alhambra
Heinrich
Bora
Feny
Bridget
Ludwig
Yaacov
Anni
Maurits
Günter
Starlet
Symmetry
Heinz
Glossary of Terms and Techniques
Sources for Yarns
Treat your feet
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Copyright.

✦ Subjects

Socks.;Knitting -- Patterns.;Optical art.;Knitting.