The beauty of Brioche
BRIOCHE KNITTING is one of those glorious techniques that looks amazingly professional yet is pretty straightforward to knit - once you get to grips with the special terminology and process.
The fabric produced is soft, airy, squidgy, incredibly warm and light, yet not too bulky. One-colour brioche is immensely satisfying, and with two-colour brioche you can create elegantly meandering ribs of colour that are so satisfying to knit.
Although some designers incorporate brioche stitch into garments, some of the best patterns we have seen use innovative stitch patterns to create amazing effects on shawls, scarves and other accessories.
Brioche’s beginnings
The roots of brioche knitting aren’t very clear. It first appeared in publications by Miss Frances Lambert in the early 1840s, including from 1843, which you can read in a digital version on the website. Miss Lambert talks about ‘a Brioche’, a kind of cushion that resembles the French sweet bread that we know today, which is probably where the name for this technique stems from. According to it was
