Rose Dance Shawl

For the design of this shawl, I decided that I wanted to combine two designs by Herbert Niebling to form a semi-circular shawl. The first was from a set of reprints, Kunststricken: Decken, Garnityren, Spitzen originally published by Otto Beyer Publishing House. The pattern in question was from booklet 760 (Herzmuster) and is Fig. 20 on page 12, with the chart appearing as Fig. 7 on the chart sheet. The second pattern was Johannisrose and here is where I ran into problems. While a photograph (page 10) was included in the set of reprints Spitzenstrickerei 1: Historische Muster, it turned out that the pattern chart was not included. Since I did not want to give up on my idea of combining the two patterns, I have done my best to recreate the rose motif from the photograph. Since it did not have sufficient detail to see such things as the placement of decreases, it is hard to tell how accurate the recreation is. I hope Mr. Niebling would not be appalled by my version. The yarn I used was a hand spun yarn spun from a blend on bombyx silk and yak (50%/50%). Warning - the pattern has not been test knitted by anyone other than myself so there may be errors. Please let me know if you find any and I will post a corrected version. Please make sure you have the most recent version. Thanks. 03-18-2026 Version 2. Added missing k1 in chart 1, row 41, column 25. 04-27-2026 Version 3. Fixed beginning and end of row 123. Updated the key and key notes. 04-29-2026 Version 4. Added k1 before the repeat on row 121, chart 3a. 04-30-2026 Version 5. Fixed the beginning of row 123 again. Hopefully correctly this time. 05-01-2026 Version 6 Add k1 to column 67, rows 125-137 in chart 3b. Change ssk column 72 in row 125, chart 3b to k1. 06-16-2026 Version 7 Fixed repeated knit stitch count in chart 4b and added explanation of the count numbers. 07-09-2026 Version 8 Made stitch 3 in Chart 4a, row 217 yellow (k2tog first time through the repeat).