Vivian Høxbro’s Knitting Handbook

8 Schools of Modular Knitting

My newest book is now available in English!

I am very proud of this book – it is a product of a teamwork of many people, but most of all my grandchild Sophia Høxbro, who helped me with colors. I loved to follow her taste and combine it with mine and my approach to knitting and designing. I hope you will like it. 

Publisher: Trafalgar Books

From a little-known chapter of knitting history comes the Danish “night sweater”―part of women’s traditional dress in the 1800s, these sweaters have long been overlooked in surveys of Scandinavian handcrafting and design. But now celebrated Danish knitting expert Vivian Høxbro has brought together diligent research, comprehensive charts, and her own painstaking efforts to reconstruct these carefully-preserved garments to create a unique collection of single-color relief patterns. Within, knitted, purled, and crossed stitches form hundreds of classic star motifs, edgings, horizontal and vertical pattern panels, and striking “traveling stitch” designs. Learn the history of night sweaters in Denmark, with a rundown of special techniques and regional knitting practices, and then dive into a neatly-organized library of 200 charts for motifs of all kinds. Follow step-by-step instructions as you reconstruct traditional Danish sweaters in contemporary sizes, work traditionally-inspired patterns for a stole, top, tunic, and more―or use these motifs, edgings, and decorative panels in projects of your own design.