knitting
Knitting is the making of fabric by using special needles to interlace yarn in a series of loops, or stitches. Knitting, uses two single-pointed needles for flat work and a flexible circular needle with points at each end or several double-pointed needles for circular work, remains a popular hobby. Unusual and attractive knit items can command high prices. Most knit fabrics and garments today, however, are produced by machine. Knit patterns are produced with two basic stitches: a knit stitch is a loop pulled to the front of the work; a purl stitch is pulled to the back. By varying knit and purl stitches, by slipping, casting off, or adding stitches, and by using different yarn colors and textures, a large variety of patterns can be made. The art of knitting has been practiced for thousands of years. How this art was learned by ancient human is still a mystery, so is the country and period of its origin, but knitted fabric and pointed knitting needles have been found ancient Egypt, Rome, Peru, Saudi Arabia, and Europe. Some historians say it evolved in Egypt in the early middle ages. Another historians think knitting dates back to about the year 200, when some men were tending their flocks of sheep and talking whi
His design based on an early form of knitting that used hooked needles mounted side by side on a frame, allowed an operator to form an entire row of loops with a single stroke of a foot pedal. The first warp-knitting machine, invented in 1775, knit yarn together vertically and could produce fabric far more quickly than the older machines. "Ersatz in the Confederacy: Shortages and Substitutions on the Southern Homefront. During the English-French Napoleonic wars, ladies got together to knit socks and mittens for the soldiers. Technology quickened the pace of improvement in knitting. As an English minister, Lee made little money, so his wife supplemented their income by knitting and to make it easier for her he made the machine. Others made them from wood, ivory, bone, bamboo, amber, iron as well as a few other materials. England introduced an improvement in power machines known as the Cotton system. Many knitting bees and social gatherings were organized. The earliest knitting needle was made from copper wire with a hook at one end. At this time in American history, knitting and other forms of needlework was considered to be a crucial element of a girl's education. About 1830 a French inventor introduced a machine for circular knitting with beared needles radiating outward from a revolving ring, the loops being formed by sinkers, which also revolved.
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