I am THINKING about knitting a lot though. For example, let me show you a sweater named Marius, named for this guy, Marius Eriksen, a popular skier in the fifties:
The picture and caption above is from "Strikking i Norge"(Knitting in Norway, Kjellberg, et al., 1987).
This is one of the most popular sweaters in Norway ever, and was designed in the 50's. It was loosely based on the borders of Setesdal sweaters, but I have never seen it exported much, since it was not a real "traditional" sweater. It was more one that just "everybody" wore.
Here is another updated version which is pretty cute.
But since it's not a traditional sweater, but actually a recent and copyrighted design, imagine my surprise as I am walking down the street and I see this window:
See the sweater on the left? Okay, maybe the nighttime, through the plate glass window, is not the best shot...
But still! Ralph Lauren has blatantly copied the Marius sweater. This is just so wrong!
Wonder if I should alert the knitting authorities. I will have to go and cheer myself up by reading some Threadbared...
