Alice Starmore

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Alice Starmore (née Alice Matheson) is a professional needleworker and author of books on needlework, born in Stornoway, Western Isles, Scotland.

Growing up in a traditional Scottish fishing community with Gaelic as her native language, knitting was one of the skills she learned at an early age, already creating her own designs by the age of five. She decided to make it into a profession in 1975, when she produced a collection which was sold in London boutiques. In 1978, she was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship and travelled to Norway, Sweden and Finland to study their textile traditions. Her books are widely considered to be one of the authorities on Celtic and Fair Isle design and technique. As well as her books, she has written articles for Threads and Vogue Knitting magazines and marketed her own lines of threads and yarn.

Her daughter, Jade Starmore, is also a professional needleworker, and has published her own books.

1 Published Works
2 Bibliography
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Published Works

Starmore's book Aran Knitting(Interweave Press USA, 1997), now no longer in print, has reached such popularity and renown amongst knitters that a secondhand copy currently sells at astonishing prices starting at around $200.00 USD. The high price of secondhand copies of Aran Knitting is further driven by the fact that the book is no longer in print.

[edit] Bibliography

Scandinavian Knitwear (Bell & Hyman UK, 1981)
Knitting from the British Islands (Bell & Hyman UK, 1982)
Children's Knitting From Many Lands, (Bell & Hyman UK, St. Martin's Press USA, 1983)
Alice Starmore's Book of Fair Isle Knitting, (Taunton Press USA, Blanford Books UK, 1988) (Also published as: The Fair Isle Knitting Handbook, Blanford Press UK, 1990)
Sweaters For Men (Ballantine Books USA, Pavilion Books UK, 1988)
The Celtic Collection (Anaya UK, Trafalgar Square USA, 1992)
The Scottish Collection - pattern book (1992)
Charts for Colour Knitting, (Windfall Press, 1992)
Fishermen's Sweaters, (Anaya UK, Trafalgar Square USA, 1993)
A Scottish Garland - pattern book (1993)
Celtic Needlepoint, (Anaya UK, Trafalgar Square USA, 1994)
American Portraits - pattern book (1994)
In The Hebrides, (Windfall Press USA, 1995)
Stillwater, (Windfall Press USA, 1996)
Aran Knitting, (Interweave Press USA, 1997)
Pacific Coast Highway, (Windfall Press USA, 1997)
Tudor Roses, (Windfall Press USA, 1998)
The Children's Collection - with Jade Starmore, (Interweave Press USA, 2000)