For ideas for her latest book on knitwear, Sasha Kagan looked to the Welsh countryside where she lives with her family. And nature was obliging indeed, judging from the lovely designs in Sasha Kagan's Country Inspiration. A leading knitwear designer with an international reputation, Kagan uses leaves and flowers as the basis for creating a variety of garments and home decor items. This classic collection includes her trademark sweaters, as well as throws, pillows, and bedcovers. The process is made easier and more fun with simple, full-color graphs for each of the book's 40 projects, and the patterns elegantly showcase the author's unerring sense of color and style.
Here celebrated British knitwear designer Sasha Kagan presents a collection of 22 classic hand-knit designs such as cardigans, jackets and coats, tops and sweaters, wraps and scarves. All have Sasha s signature use of design, colour and texture, offering a very wearable group of timeless pieces for the hand-knitter to make and enjoy. Sasha gives alternative colour-ways for some designs, opening up the possibilities for the knitter to choose a thoughtful, coordinated wardrobe and offers an extensive techniques section, including Sasha s favourite stitch patterns, her use of the intarsia technique and also her designer secrets!
Kagan starts his analysis pointing at the Western development model and the modern worldview that lie at the heart of unsustainability. He characterizes the modern worldview as based in the classical scientific method and as atomistic, materialistic, individualistic and Eurocentric. Kagan's assumption is that in order to change our actual culture of unsustainability in a sustainable one, we will have to look for an alternative worldview and go beyond utilitarian rationality that is so very common in our contemporary cultures and in most analyses of sustainability. We will have to engage ourselves in a really fundamental rethinking of our culture and our ways of thinking, knowing and seeing ourselves and the world. With an overview of ecological art over the past 40 years and a discussion of art and social change, the book assesses the potential role of art in a much needed transformation process. Review in: International journal of cutural policy.19(2013)1(141-143).
From the editors of Vogue® Knitting comes a chic and beautiful collection of 50 simple sweater patterns, all by notable knitwear designers like Cathy Carron and Kaffe Fassett. Selected from recent issues of the magazine, these “best of” designs are perfect for beginners and cover everything from stockinette, stripes, and cables to lightweight knits and relaxed fit.
The popular series for the "knitter on the go” showcases the perfect take-along project: timeless, elegant shawls. Twenty classic designs--from gossamer lace creations and glittery fashion statements to sturdy wraps made for warmth--span the seasons in style and color. They come in unique shapes and forms, too, including round, triangle, and mitered, and in a range of skill levels. There are even some patterns to crochet! And they’re all created by the best designers, such as Nicky Epstein, Fayla Reiss, and Amy Bahrt, who contributes a charming and whimsical Sheep Shawl. Superbly photographed so that beginners can follow easily, this is truly Vogue� fashion at its very finest.
Kaffe Fassett has been producing some of the world's most exquisite knitting designs for over 30 years. He has worked with everyone from Missoni to Bill Gibb, designing diverse and beautiful knitwear that is worn all over the world. Now Kaffe Fassett's Pattern Library provides in one volume a collection of over 200 of his most exquisite pieces. Each design is illustrated with a close-up photographic swatch, accompanied by a detailed colour chart to allow the knitter to copy the pattern. A general chapter on creating one's own designs, covering issues such as scale, repeats and borders, enables knitters to share in Kaffe's creative process and benefit from his unique tips in designing their own pieces. For Kaffe Fassett fans and anyone who loves the art of knitting, this book will be an absolute must-have.
“Surprising and remarkable…Toggling between big ideas, technical details, and his personal intellectual journey, Greene writes a thesis suitable to both airplane reading and PhD seminars.”—The Boston Globe Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us) and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But modern times have forced the world’s tribes into a shared space, resulting in epic clashes of values along with unprecedented opportunities. As the world shrinks, the moral lines that divide us become more salient and more puzzling. We fight over everything from tax codes to gay marriage to global warming, and we wonder where, if at all, we can find our common ground. A grand synthesis of neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy, Moral Tribes reveals the underlying causes of modern conflict and lights the way forward. Greene compares the human brain to a dual-mode camera, with point-and-shoot automatic settings (“portrait,” “landscape”) as well as a manual mode. Our point-and-shoot settings are our emotions—efficient, automated programs honed by evolution, culture, and personal experience. The brain’s manual mode is its capacity for deliberate reasoning, which makes our thinking flexible. Point-and-shoot emotions make us social animals, turning Me into Us. But they also make us tribal animals, turning Us against Them. Our tribal emotions make us fight—sometimes with bombs, sometimes with words—often with life-and-death stakes. A major achievement from a rising star in a new scientific field, Moral Tribes will refashion your deepest beliefs about how moral thinking works and how it can work better.
A biography of the American clothing designer follows his career from the early days as a milliner for Bergdorf Goodman through his influence on international couture
