Tudor Roses - Alice Starmore

Tudor Roses by Alice Starmore revisits a celebrated knitwear collection with newly created and reimagined designs. This paperback edition presents inspired garments to knit, combining pattern writing with photography and historical context.

Key details

• Author: Alice Starmore
• Paperback format
• 176 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 25 August 2017
• ISBN: 9780486817187

Synopsis

This volume updates the original Tudor Roses first published in 1998, drawing on women connected with the Tudor dynasty as the starting point for a distinctive knitwear wardrobe. Starmore modernises traditional Fair Isle and Aran patterning, shaping garments that sit between historic reference and contemporary wearability.

Across fourteen designs for sweaters and other wearables, the book follows the Tudor timeline from Elizabeth Woodville, grandmother of Henry VIII, to Mary, Queen of Scots. Photography and artwork accompany the patterns, with Starmore and her daughter, Jade, using needlework as a lens through which to reflect the known facts of each subject’s life. A considered choice for knitters looking for pattern-led projects with a strong visual and historical frame.

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