Cables, Diamonds, & Herringbone: Secrets of Knitting Traditional Fishermen's Sweaters [With Patterns]

By Sabine Domnick

A translation of a book published in Germany in 2004, this book includes knitting patterns for traditional-style Guernsey, Jersey, and Filey fishermen's sweaters, as well as how to adapt the textural motifs from these sweaters to modern garments.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892726881
• ISBN13: 9780892726882
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Down East Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.4" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful patterns and history

The book doesn’t just give you patterns, they explain the concept of how to assemble this type of sweater with any design or cable. It’s like they are showing you how to make any kind of fisherman’s sweater you’d like, and they give you all the charts for the different designs as well. Then after the patterns they have historical photos and explanations of how they chose to put the book together. I thought it was a great resource that shows you the kind of formula of how to put one of these sweaters together if you wanted to customize your own.