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Alice Starmore

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born

Stornoway, Western Isles, Scotland, The United Kingdom

gender

female

genre

Crafts & Hobbies, Arts & Photography

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Alice Starmore (née Matheson) was raised in a traditional, Gaelic-speaking Scottish fishing village. She began knitting as a child, studying the folk knitting traditions of her native Scotland. Starmore later expanded her textile studies, traveling in Scandinavia in the late 1970s on a Winston Churchill Fellowship.

Broadly recognized as one of the world's authorities on Fair Isle and other folk knitting traditions, Starmore founded Windfall Press in 1991. Windfall produces knitting patterns and instructional manuals as well as a large number of Scottish Gaelic titles.

Starmore expanded her career beyond knitting in the 1990s, focusing on fine art and photography. She held her first major solo exhibition in 2008 on the Isle of Lewis.

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Books by Alice Starmore

Average rating: 4.30 · 636 ratings · 48 reviews · 19 distinct works

	Alice Starmore's Book of Fair Isle Knitting by Alice Starmore, Christine Timmons (Editor) 4.39 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 1988 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Celtic Collection: Twenty-Five Knitwear Designs for Men and Women by Alice Starmore, Mike Bunn (Photographs) 4.19 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Aran Knitting 4.45 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Fisherman's Sweaters: Twenty Exclusive Knitwear Designs for All Generations 4.32 avg rating — 85 ratings — published 1985 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Tudor Roses 4.26 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Stillwater by Alice Starmore, Robby Neish (Illustrator), Bob London (Photographer) 4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1996	My rating:
	Celtic Needlepoint 3.78 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Pacific Coast Highway by Alice Starmore, Patrick McHugh, Jade Starmore 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1997	My rating:
	The Fair Isle Knitting Handbook 4.82 avg rating — 11 ratings	My rating:
	Alice Starmore's Charts for Color Knitting: New and Expanded Edition 4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011	My rating: