Author: KLIFT-TELLEGEN, H. VAN DER,
Title: Nederlandse Visserstruien. Met Breipatronen. [Tweede bijdruk; Second impression].
Description: De Bilt, Cantecleer, 1983. Medium square. 8°. Original coloured and illustrated buckram boards, covertitle in bold white type with a coloured illustration at tail. 96pp. Monochrome frontispiece illustrating a group of dutch local fishermen in traditional clothing, many partly captioned monochrome illustrations of which some full-page illustrating typical local fishermen in traditional clothing, many diagrams and patterns in text and full-page, including detailed directions about the art of knitting traditional dutch fishermen's cardigans, list of literature for further reading, conclusion, table of contents. Dutch language detailed practical handbook about dutch fishermen's cardigans and how to knit them with numerous patterns and various techniques from bygone days of folklore pattern knitting, which is almost forgotten nowadays. Discussed and described are knittings from Katwijk, Maassluis, Middelharnis, Noordwijk, Pernis, scheveningen, Urk, Velsen, Vlaardingen, Volendam and Zwartewaal, all small fishing villages bordering the dutch part of the Northsea. Very good copy.

Keywords: knitting patterns fishermen cardigans folklore handicraft homecraft clothing dress men folklore folkdress history culture heritagedutch fishingvillages hamlets urk volendam middelharnis scheveningen