Knitting The Threads Of Time is a very informative look at the rich history and cultures partaining to women and using textiles to make clothing to nurture and protect those they love from the elements. The author, Nora Murphy, brilliantly weaves the real life challenge of knitting a sweater for her son while she carefully crafts her transition from an amateur knitter to a woman of confidence as she meets, greets and overcomes the obstacles in her path to completing the sweater.
Nora Murphy talks about women who create clothing for their loved ones and how items are crafted through relationships up and downs, events, difficult circumstances and how homemade clothing makes us feel connected to others.
We learn alot about the process of string, yarn making from its humble beginnings as raw fiber into the finished product that you see lining the shelves of the local yarn/craft shop. There is much reference to traditions and cultures and how those very things bind women together over the past, the present and into the future. It was an interesting read.
The book was published by New World Library in 2009.
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