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"Stora Spetskragen", known in English as "The Large Lace Collar", was designed for Bohus Stickning by Karin Ivarsson in 1961. It is part of a collection of similar designs, including the Pink and Yellow Lace Collar.
The knitting kit for Stora Spetskragen was developed in 2001 from original charts and garments held in museum collections. The design is available as knitting kit for a pullover with a round yoke, as a jacket, as a hat, as a tam and as a patterned scarf.
The garment is knitted on dark gray or black base in an angora yarn spun from 50% hand-cut angora wool from our own angora rabbits and 50% New Zealand merino wool. The pattern yarns are hand-dyed by Pernille Silfverberg to match the original yarns. The yarn is spun in Denmark at Henrichsens Uldspinderi.
The kit contains enough yarn to knit a pullover in the largest size XL, which corresponds to the garment's measurement of 117 cm around the chest, and instructions to knit a recreation Design of the original Bohus Stickning design in sizes from 92 cm for 117 cm. The model can be knitted with an elastic neck or a folded neck edge, both of which are described in the instructions. The kit also includes a printed pattern chart with yarn samples for and 12 pattern yarns to use as reference. Three of the pattern yarns are in merino wool.
The garment is worked from the top down in AngoraGarnets angora/merino yarn. The patterned yoke for design is worked with up to for three pattern yarns in one round with a knitting tension of 33 stitches/10 cm. Only knit and purl stitches are used. The jumper is worked in the round on circular needles, then the front and back pieces are worked in stockinette stitch back and forth and seamed to mimic its original construction. Knitting needles are not included in the knitting kit, but typically 2.0 mm-2.5 mm needles are needed to achieve the correct knitting tension.
Pattern yarns for this design are hand-dyed by Pernille to ensure they reproduce the original design.
Dark grey base color no. 318 and black base color no. 200. Pattern yarns color nos. 100, 129, 211, 162, 181, 246, 134, three lambswool pattern yarns: 1S, 114 and 115.
Bohus Stickning Stora Spetskragen after original Bohus Stickning
Design Kerstin Olsson for Bohus Stickning 1961
Recreated in 2001 by Solveig Gustafsson and revised in 2016 by Pernille Silfverberg, AngoraGarnet.
Design and Copyright owner of the trademark Bohus Stickning
Bohus Stickning knitting kits are sold exclusively through AngoraGarnet. A small selection of kits are also available from Bohusläns museum shop. The knitting instructions are licensed for individual use only. They may not be copied or offered for sale commercially. Knitting instructions for Bohus Stickning are only sold together with yarn.
