Tag: Recreating

December 8, 2024

Recreating the Medieval Globe Acts of Recycling, Revision, and Relocation

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Free Download Joseph Shack, "Recreating the Medieval Globe: Acts of Recycling, Revision, and Relocation "
English | ISBN: 1641894253 | 2020 | 181 pages | PDF | 16 MB
The creative reuse of materials, texts, and ideas was a common phenomenon in the medieval world. The seven chapters offer here a synchronic and diachronic consideration of the receptions and meanings of events and artifacts, analyzing the processes that allowed medieval works to remain relevant in sociocultural contexts far removed from those in which they originated. In the process, they elucidate the global valences of recycling, revision, and relocation throughout the interconnected Middle Ages, and their continued relevance for the shaping of modernity. The essays examine cases in the Arab and Muslim world, China and Mongolia, and the Prussian-Lithuanian frontier of eastern Europe.

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January 20, 2024

Timeless Tyrolean Knitwear Recreating the Vintage Style

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Free Download Timeless Tyrolean Knitwear: Recreating the Vintage Style by Linda Ivell
English | March 15, 2023 | ISBN: 0719841143 | 176 pages | PDF | 45 Mb
The passion for Tyrolean-style knitwear has endured for nearly one hundred years and it is still as popular today as when it first appeared in the early 1930s. Timeless Tyrolean Knitwear outlines the key techniques associated with the style and offers inspiration and guidance for creating your own vintage-inspired designs. Coverage includes an introduction to the origins and inspiration for Tyrolean knitwear and the defining characteristics of the fashionable style plus advice for working from vintage knitting patterns and adaptations for the modern knitter. There is a guide to vintage yarns and their modern substitutes and a Pattern Collection of thirteen knitting patterns adapted from vintage originals dating from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, some published here for the first time. Finally, there is an exclusive, new design offering a choice of vintage Tyrolean features and shapes to use as a ‘menu’ of inspiration for creating your own individual piece.

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