Errata: After row 18, the pattern states: “‘Rounds 19 to 50: repeat rounds 16 to 19 a further 8 times.” It should read: “Rounds 19 to 50: repeat rounds 15 to 18 a further 8 times.”

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When I first saw Eunny Jang’s Endpaper Mitts and the way that the stranded pattern resembled the endpapers of a book, I recalled the first time I read Proust’s In Search of Lost Time in English as a freshman in college, which inspired me to become a literature major and also to learn French. We read the Modern Library hardcover edition, which h...