Just in time for summer, two publishers have released books of lace shawls. Today, I'm reviewing “Mystic Shawls” by Anna Dalvi, which came to me as an ebook from Cooperative Press. The print version ...

This weekend artist and designer Nick Cave’s pop-up Soundsuit Shop will feature Chicago designer Anke Loh’s hand-knitted shawls from her fall 2010 collection. As she’s done in previous collections, ...

Knit three, purl three … over and over, totaling more than three million loops on knitting needles, for 22,000 hours. That’s what it takes to create 1,100 prayer shawls. And that’s exactly what a ...

Koigu, the Canadian wool company known for its handpainted yarns, has collaborated with Sixth & Spring books to compile a book of shawls, "Wrapped in color." I have always thought that "Koigu" was a ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X On a brisk winter day last month, six women gathered in a cozy room at Sacred Heart Glyndon, a ...

When Valerie Romanello was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2012, she was determined to beat the disease. And she found an unusual ally in that battle -- a hand-knit shawl. "When I got my first ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Arthur was in his 90s and for months had been in and out of Providence Medical Center. When he became critically ill, he received a prayer shawl. “He felt that it was a tangible ...