Quick Question

[killiara]

Anyone know of a good book or two where the system of magic leans heavily into textile creation? I mean, the more I learn about crocheting and knitting, the time involved, the levels of concentration, the more I think that it's a very short hop to turn it into a system of magic, subtle yet powerful. This blanket's pattern traps nightmares before they can reach the sleeper, for example, or little knitted animals acting as household guardians for pest control. Sweaters that keep you perfectly warm in winter yet cool in summer, or strong as chainmail and capable of turning blades. Delicate little doilies that capture and entrap intruders, the enchantment for that hidden under one that keeps drinks the perfect temperature for drinking. Knitted bandages that speed the healing of wounds underneath, and keep both infection and gangrene from setting in.

If it already exists, I want to read it.

If it does not exist, I really want to know because I can almost see how it'd go. It'd be modern times, those capable of this craft hiding in plain sight, passed off as dotty grandmothers too senile to know that the same sweater's for only 20 dollars at Target, and she's spending HOW many hours to make it? A young girl gets her grandmother's 'crafting supplies' when Gran's moved to an Old People's Home and no one else in the family wants them, and through the pattern books slowly discovers her own abilities, a stitch at a time. ... Hey, that'd be a great title for book one, huh?