Just in time for summer, two publishers have released books of lace shawls. Today, I'm reviewing “Mystic Shawls” by Anna Dalvi, which came to me as an ebook from Cooperative Press. The print version ...

The original shawl is designed to be worked in six colors of fingering weight yarn, with a solid black background, although I recently saw a shawl knit in a worsted weight and was no less impressed.

Andrea Brauneis, trans. from the German by Katharina Sokiran. Stackpole, $24.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8117-7045-3 The handsome English-language debut from designer Brauneis shows how to knit using ...