BH CRAFTS Slipper Socks that travel the globe - Buy with Purpose

Jorabs – Ethnic Socks that travel the globe This wonderful eye opening story about the world of Jorabs (Ethnic Socks) has been written by Tatyana Tadenev. I would like to thank Tatyana very much for sharing this with me and for allowing me to publish it here on Historic Crafts. You can read more about jorabs and see what Tatyana is up to on her blog Kloobok. I learned about Jorabs by chance: from the National Geographic gift catalog. It was Christmas time, and I was looking for a nice gift idea for my husband. Leafing through the catalog I saw a picture of incredibly beautiful multicolored socks made in Bosnia. I ordered them and could not wait for my package to arrive. The socks were knitted in an unusual way: toe-up. Unlike a well-known Western way of knitting them from cuffs down, these were started at the toe with just a few stitches, and continued up with symmetrical increases on both sides. Patterning was not the same all over: the pattern for the sole was much simpler. Everything about the socks was new and delightful. Thank you for looking!!