Traveling rib pattern

Name/Title

Traveling rib pattern

Entry/Object ID

2020.1.468

Collection

Barbara Walker Swatch Project

Category

Chapter 12 : Cable Stitch Patterns

Acquisition

Accession

2020.1

Made/Created

Artist

Lea Stern

Time Period

circa 2020

Place

City

Washington, D.C.

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America

Notes

Lea was taught to knit by her British mother and two older sisters when she was four. She has been knitting for 62 years and uses various patterns from Barbara Walker’s books. Lea enjoys using the patterns to design various garments and even has one pattern she has never found in her books for a child’s sweater knitted in 1939.

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

knitters, knitting (needlework), knitting (process)

Parts

Count

3

Parts

Swatch, handwritten card, envelope.

Color

Blue

Location

Box

Barbara Walker Swatch Collection

Room

Library