The Swedish knitwear workshop founded by Emma Jacobsson, Bohus Stickning, is best known for its beautiful hand-knitted items made famous in the late 1930s through the ‘60s for their attention to detail, innovative design and color, and exacting standards of craftsmanship. Traditional Bohus patterns utilized a fine-weight angora and wool blend to create a gorgeous halo and tonal gradations of color. The addition of purl stitches and the sometimes 3rd (or 4th or 5th) color per row opened up limitless design possibilities for the knitter. This in-depth exploration covers the history of Bohus Stickning from its beginnings as a governmental rural improvement project, to its height as a Swedish fashion house with world wide recognition, to its eventual closure.

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