Three Orenburg Shawls to Knit:
The Gossamer Webs Design Collection
by Galina Khmeleva

Softcover $12.95
ISBN 1-883010-87-X
Interweave Press, 2000.
55 pages.

Introduction: "Skaska Design and Interweave Press are happy to bring you the Gossamer Webs Design Collection. This selection represents three classic Orenburg-style lace patterns in written form for the very first time. For over three hundred years, knitters fromthe Orenburg region of Russia have been creating Gossamer-style lace shawls and scarves from a series of basic elements and patterns handed down from generation to generation. In hopes of preserving this indigenous textile art form, Galina Khmeleva has worked with these talented craftspeople to chart these unique knitted lace masterpieces, thus providing the opportunity for one to create their very own heirloom Orenburg-lace shawl or scarf."