All over the world where people have time to knit, literally tons of wool garments have been produced by hand, by home knitting machines, and industry. One of the questions answered in this book is: what happens to all this wool fiber?
In Scandinavian countries, frugality dictates that it be recycled. The author is a Norwegian knit designer and instructor, and the operator of the last wool garment recycling center, a shoddy factory. Suffice it to say that when a knitter gets 16 tons of discarded wool garments that have accumulated since the turn of the last century, she sees the heap of history therein. So she has sorted out examples that she uses to illustrate the "everyday knitting" of her country's diverse knitting history.
When she embellishes the illustrations with archeology and printed commercial patterns, the result is a unique glimpse of knitting. Tucked in at the back of the book are several pages of charts Annemor has culled from the shoddy pile. They include flowers, birds, cats and other four legged critters, trees, dancers, and, of course, stars.
