This wonderful treasure from Project Gutenberg is packed with
designs that are as hip today as they were 140 years ago.
Beeton's Book of Needlework by Isabella Beeton (originally published in 1870)
is filled with over 600 tatting, crochet, knitting, and embroidery patterns and instructions. I limited myself to sharing 6. Download the ebook for free.
Surma and Mursi tribes of East Africa's Omo Valley
These stunning photos are from the upcoming collection of photographs
by Hans Silvester, Natural Fashion: Tribal Decoration from Africa.
Inspired by the wild trees, exotic flowers and lush vegetation from the
area bordering Ethiopia and Kenya, these tribal people adorn themselves with the
bounty that nature has to offer: a garland of flowers, a veil of
seed-pods, feathers, make-up (paint created with pigments from powdered stone),
as a celebration of themselves and of their exquisite environment.
Here are the delicious textural color explorations of Jane Thornley.
That's Jane there in the center revealing her adorable fey attributes in her capelet.
She loves to inspire others to translate the colors they witness in nature into magical knitting. See more information on her in the post below.
Is there Heaven on Earth? Well this must be it!
There is still space available in Jane Thornley's upcoming Knitaly Tour 2008.
If you can't make the journey this time around,
check out her new pdf book Knitaly, an Adventure in Knitting.
