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Little Big Loop Katrin Mosimann, 2010 Textilmuseum St. Gallen

St Gallen, on now till January 1, 2011

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Gillian Zbinden, swissinfo.ch

Amazing knitted garments and unusual objects of art can be admired at the St Gallen Textile Museum. With fabulous examples of knitted wonders both old and new, one of the main attractions is a knitted showpiece dating from 1699 by Georg Strauss of Winterthur.

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