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Shetland Lace

Shetland Lace
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A revised edition of a best seller, brought back into print in 2008, and fully illustrated throughout with photographs by John Coutts & Billy Fox.

Gladys Amedro loved the art of Shetland Lace – the tradition, the skill, the beauty as well as the practicality of it. Her passion for this craft was clear to see. She loved to share her knowledge with like-minded people as well as those who, like me, were unfamiliar with this form of knitting. Her instructions are easy to follow and given row by row, written in the traditional Shetland variation. If you are unfamiliar with the abbreviations, don’t worry, it soon becomes second nature. The results can be breathtaking; Having now made several cobweb shawls from Gladys’s designs, it is hard to believe that something so beautiful can be created with something as ordinary as knitting needles and a finely spun yarn. – Bea Neilson, Editor, Classic Stitches, August 2008.

Gladys Amedro (1920-2001): Born and brought up in London, Gladys Amedro first started knitting at the age of four, encouraged by her grandmother. She retained her interest in knitting throughout the years, including during her period of service with the ATS both at home and abroad. She met her husband in Jerusalem and they married after the war. Their home was made in Perthshire, her husband’s birthplace. They had two sons, both now married. They first visited Shetland in 1966, fell in love with the islands and especially the people, and decided to make their retirement home in Yell, where they lived until 1999. Gladys turned to designing and pattern production after she started knitting with cobweb lace wool in 1979. As Gema Ord she produced designs for several magazines.
Author Gladys Amedro
Binding Paperback
No of Pages 152pp
ISBN 978-1-904746-35-5
 
Price: £22.00
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