Gorgeous Vintage Japanese Sweaters!
While scooting about Flickr.com, I came across some lovely photos from a set of vintage Japanese knitting magazines. They look to be from the 1930’s, and I’m hoping to persuade the woman who owns them to scan a few of the patterns. I’m also hoping someone in this group can read kanji characters.
You can check out the rest of them here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/annadilemna/page5/
(scroll down to the bottom half of the page.)
Wow! That’s beautiful! I hope she scans the pattern. I’d love to make that one
Great find.
Comment by Teresa — February 2, 2007 @ 4:09 pm
There was an article in Interweave Knits about this. A search revealed this site:
http://www.tata-tatao.to/knit/e-index.html
There is a chart in there that shows the Kanji characters for wool content, needle sizes, yarn sizes, etc. According to the article these patterns are fairly easy to read…
Just noticed that the Interweave Knits blog (blogs.interweave.com/knits) has a bunch of URLs that might help, but I haven’t been there yet.
Kristen, I like the new look here…a nice change
Ellen
Comment by Ellen — February 3, 2007 @ 4:35 pm
Greetings again - I hope you’ll post if you get copies of these Japanese patterns. Between the tata-tatao site (which I visit periodically) and some Japanese friends, I could probably piece together a decent translation of the patterns. These are awesome!
Jane
Comment by Jane — May 7, 2007 @ 4:30 pm
Thanks for that link
What amazing finds there!
Comment by Carson — September 14, 2007 @ 6:05 am