What started as a dare became an icon of Norwegian knitting and started a snowball of knitting traditions across the North Atlantic. Selbuvotter: Biography of a Knitting Tradition follows the story of these beautiful mittens and gloves, from folk tradition to major regional industry to national symbol, and passes the tradition on with over 30 patterns taken from actual antiques. Every aspect of business today can be found in the story of Selbu knitting. And above it all, thousands of women and men, using spare moments to create spectacular designs that are as fresh today as they were 150 years ago.

Selbuvotter is being distributed by Unicorn Books and Crafts and Lacis. Please ask for it at your local book or yarn store.

March 6, 2008 The second printing books are in and shipping! If I did my job right, all of the errata have been fixed in the second printing, but if you find something that you think is in error, please let me know. You can start with the Selbuvotter groups on Ravelry or Yahoo.