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In the book “Sprang, egyptisch vlechten” by Fenny Nijman there is a patern for a sweater. |
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The basicpatern for this sweater is a rectanglar plane With an opening in the middle. By attaching two extra lines the sleeves can be braided on to the with the body as one piece. |
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On this picture you can see that the sweater is indeed sleeveless. The elasticity of the braiding alows the shoulders to strech and form a sleeve. |
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At about 3/4 of the braiding I splitt the plane in two separate planes to make an opening for your head. This is very simple to do by lifting 2 threads and then dropping 2 treats precisely in the middle of the plane. The next row You close 1 by 1 and the third row you again lift 2 and drop 2. |
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When I made this sweater I (for the first time) felt comfortable enough to try making a patern of little holes in the sweater. |
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At the bottom of the sweater I started making a hole after every 8 threads, the part in the middle has a hole after every 4 threads and the top after every 2 threads. |
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And this is what the endresult looks like. The sweater was made out of 100% wool and is dispite of it is very open braiding quite warm. It is a sweater that you can ‘live’ in. |
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I love your items on your site for Sprang. I have just found this technique and am learning it. I wish more of your site were translated into English. Especially this page on making the sweater. It is fascinating workmanship!
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Hello Sandra,
You are right. To many pages haven’t been translated yet. We have recently given our site a total makeover and we did it in Dutch first. If you want to see the sprang pages in Englisch, go to http://www.denblauwenswaen.nl/oudesite.htm
(this is our old site). On the left you see an Englisch flag, click on it and on the next page, in the (left) menu you see ‘techniques’. There you can find our (old) English sprangpages:-)
Ronald
P.S. The sprang pages will be the first we’ll translate, but work is very busy at the moment, so it may need some time…