Working with Wool: A Coast Salish Legacy and the Cowichan Sweater
By Sylvia Olsen.
Description
Cowichan sweaters, with their distinctive bands of design and untreated, handspun wool, have been a British Columbia icon since the early years of the twentieth century, but few people know the full story behind the garment. Now Sylvia Olsen tells the tale, drawing on her own experience, academic research, and her four-decade friendship with some of the Coast Salish women who have each knitted hundreds of sweaters. The sweaters appeared in the early 1900s, but the Coast Salish people have had a wool-working tradition for hundreds of years. Sylvia describes the ingeniously woven blankets, ma...
ISBN(s)
1550391771, 9781550391770
