Ziggurats Handbook by Åsa Tricosa

Posted on2024-04-16 by LanaOnLine

Åsa Tricosa is the stage name of designer Åsa Söderman.

Åsa Tricosa is a Swedish knitwear designer who lives in Germany and Denmark with her Danish husband.

Her motto is 'I knit with abandon'. She says of herself: 'I have knitted from Sweden to Denmark via New York, Boston, Singapore, Sussex and Germany.

You will notice that my projects are mostly seamless and top-down and that I am seriously attracted to unusual solutions'.

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Åsa Tricosa is the creator of the Ziggurat method: 'The Ziggurat jumper is my signature'.

She is the inventor of a seamless, top-down, contiguous or simultaneous insertion method that she has developed and perfected since her first Ziggurat saw the light of day in 2011. While the manual was published in May 2018.

The Ziggurat method is unique and is summarised in these points:
    - Tailored and top down,
    - Seamless,
    - Simultaneous drop sleeves,
    - Simultaneous neck shaping,
    - Everything incorporated (pockets, button band, seamless concealed hems)
    - Absolutely minimal end seams

A Ziggurat pullover is knitted seamlessly and from top to bottom, with simultaneously shaped sleeves and neckline (and more), button bands, pockets... just everything.

The shoulders are worked in a zigzag pattern one after the other, before starting the normal knitting in the round. The yarn is only cut when absolutely necessary, so there are very few ends to sew. In fact, if you were working from a huge skein with a length sufficient for the entire jumper, you would end up with exactly 6 ends to be welded.

Åsa Tricosa,
Ziggurats - a handbook with 16 Patterns: knitwear patterns, jumpers, cardigans elegantly without seams.

Ziggurats, combined with all 16 patterns, as many Tutorials explaining the creation of the pattern step by step.

The manual consists of 244 pages, which you can find at the link: Ziggurats manual, including eBook* with 2 additional bonus patterns - all downloadable via the personal code on the publication.

You can view all of Åsa Tricosa's Ziggurat patterns on Raverly's dedicated page.

While you can find further explanations of the Ziggurats method directly on her blog page: The Ziggurat Method.