Embodying the contradictions of that continent-spanning empire of the Ancient world, the motifs of this sock evoke both the quotidian realities of its bucolic ideals and awe-inspiring grandeur of its most impressive architectural achievements. With waving wheat lace and spiraling cable columns, the roots of the Western collective imagination will never be far from your day dreams.

A Dream That Was Rome are top down socks with slipped seed stitch heels and seed stitch toes. Lace can be worked to make socks mirror images, or worked identically as an easier alternative.

This pattern includes both written instructions and charts.