Explore Sharon Mooney's board 'Lace knitting by Herbert Niebling etc.' on Pinterest, the world's catalogue of ideas. One of the often-featured designers in Burda was Herbert Niebling. This master of knitted lace designed patterns that were not simply “Geometric”, as were most knitted laces. His unique style offered bursts of increases. Kunststrickdecken, entworfen von Herbert Niebling: Beyer-Band 454 by Herbert Niebling and a great selection of similar Used, New and Collectible Books available now at AbeBooks.com. Lace Knitting Photo Album Thank you for visiting my 'web' page. Shown with Fostoria 'June' pieces. Herbert Niebling design. Originally published by Verlag Otto.
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Frosted Ferns Doily #7. The Spool Cotton Company. Published in Doilies, Book 2. The Spool Cotton Company, in 1. This publication is in the public domain.
The downloadable pdf includes both the written pattern from the Spool Cotton Company leaflet and a chart transcribed from the written pattern. This is very similar to the center section of the larger Eichenlaub. There is also an oval version of this design. Errata: In the pdf written instructions, on Round 9. This is wrong, and should read as “k. This provides the correct stitch count of 8.
Liebling Niebling – Laylock Knitwear Design. This post is part of Knitting & Crochet Blog Week. You can read all of last year’s posts here. I’ve talked about a few of my knitting heroes before: Mary Thomas, Mrs. Beeton, the Turkish lady whose name I can’t remember, and many of my favourite designers fall into this category as well. But Herbert Niebling is in a class of knitting brilliance all his own. He truly groks stitches; he can make a piece of string dance in achingly graceful floral patterns, seemingly effortlessly.
If you haven’t heard of him, I urge you to look through some of the projects for his patterns on Ravelry. There’s also a very active Group dedicated to him (and that’s not what it’s called, Dolores). Despite his recent popularity and his evident knitting genius, there’s hardly any information on the internet about Herbert (Richard) Niebling, not even the stub of a Wikipedia article. The best source of information I’ve been able to find is a brilliant 2- page article in Piecework May/June 2. Mary Frances Wogec. She’s also the designer of the beautiful Niebling- inspired lace bag on the cover.“As the composer writes down the notes that he hears, in the same way I write down the stitches that I see.” – Herbert Niebling.
A brief overview, from the aforementioned article: Niebling was born in Averlak in 1. He began knitting lace patterns from leaflets that were in publication at the time, and went on to study at the Hamburg Kunstgewerbeschule. After the war he settled in Freiburg, (which happens to be the only German city I’ve visited) and began publishing lace patterns inspired by the flowers in his garden. But how does a designer go from knitting doilies from a leaflet, to being “The Grand Master of Lace Knitting”? It seems we’ll never know, but I find it difficult not to romanticise the life of a man who could so perfectly command motif, shape and symmetry in such a difficult medium.
Did he see patterns in his everyday life? What did he knit his wife as a wedding gift? Did he dip his toes in the b? Did he ever dare eat a Black Forest Gateau on one of his tablecloths? These are the questions I’d like to ask him. While I’ve never knit a Niebling design, I often flip through the Lacis book for inspiration and examine and swatch elements of his designs.
I particularly yearn to wrap myself in a wispy Lyra one day, as those who share my love of His Dark Materials (and by association Ancient Greek and astronomy) will understand. Most of all though, I yearn to one day understand lace half as well as he did.