The Knitting Sutra Craft as a Spiritual Practice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Harpercollins
- Publish date: 02/01/1997
Description:
Knitting as prayer? Craft as spiritual path? In this wonderfully allusive story of the quest to master a craft, Susan Gordon Lydon's love of knitting and her search for spiritual insight become powerfully and lyrically intertwined. Lydon's journey begins when she knits a turquoise chenille sweater to help a broken bone in her arm "knit". In pursuit of a perfect silver button for her sweater - and a medicine man for her arm - she ends up on a Navajo reservation where a community of women live by the proceeds of their craft in a unified cycle of livelihood, art, and spirituality. They remind Lydon of the women on the Shetland Islands who developed classic knitting patterns and of the women who gather at her local yarn shop. From old-fashioned quilting bees to the hundreds of knitters who communicate on the Internet, she recognizes in craftspeople the confluence of self, community, creativity, ritual, and the urge to beautify the everyday. Each new knitting project she begins and every new skill she masters bring her closer to serenity and insight that have sometimes eluded her through years of spiritual explorations.
Expand description
Product notice
Returnable at the third party seller's discretion and may come without consumable supplements like access codes, CD's, or workbooks.
| Seller | Condition | Comments | Price |
|
More Than Words
|
Very Good |
$1.53
|
|
Once Upon A Time Books
|
Good
|
$1.91
|
|
Once Upon A Time Books
|
Good
|
$2.00
|
|
HPB-Ruby
|
Very Good
|
$4.37
|
|
HPB-Emerald
|
Very Good
|
$4.37
|
|
Half Price Books Inc
|
Very Good
|
$4.37
|
|
Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB
|
Very Good |
$4.48
|
|
Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB
|
Good |
$4.48
|
|
HPB-Emerald
|
Very Good
|
$5.38
|
|
Half Price Books Inc
|
Very Good
|
$5.62
|
|
BooksRun
|
Good
|
$6.17
|
|
Book Alley
|
Good
|
$7.82
|
|
Big River Books
|
Good |
$8.53
|
|
Friends of the Phoenix Library
|
Good
|
$8.98
|
|
milwaukee street used books
|
Good
|
$11.25
|
|
ErgodeBooks
|
Good |
$12.96
|
|
The Book House - Saint Louis
|
Very Good
|
$16.87
|
|
Bonita
|
Good
|
$32.50
|
|
Robinson Street Books
|
Like New
|
$36.45
|
|
Bonita
|
New
|
$54.27
|
|
Just one more Chapter
|
New |
$55.97
|
|
GridFreed
|
New |
$81.86
|
|
RARE BOOK CELLAR
|
Good |
$104.57
|
Please Wait