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Viking knitting, Celtic horse

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Finally, this past weekend, I put together the necklace that I’ve been thinking about as the perfect accessory for my Ithilien Brocade Jacket. I’ve had the pendant for a while (purchased from Crafty Celts), and have been wearing it on a gold chain, but that wasn’t quite right.  It needed something more substantial, and I thought a Viking knit ‘chain’… Continue Reading Viking knitting, Celtic horse

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Viking knitting

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I’ve recently discovered a different kind of Viking knitting. Not like my Viking socks, which have cable designs taken from Viking stone carving and other artifacts (I highly recommend Elsebeth Lavold’s book Viking Patterns for Knitting for this), but with wire! This kind of work has evidently been called Viking knitting for a long, long time, and is a method… Continue Reading Viking knitting

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