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A snood is a tube-shaped piece of stretchable cloth that can be worn either around the neck as a scarf or around the head as a kind of hood. [1] Snood scarves can be made from the light clothing material, like silk, to wear in the spring- and summertime, or knitted cloth and even fur to provide warmth in the winter. Snood arrangements on the ...
Madonna Knitting, by Bertram of Minden 1400-1410 1855 sketch of a shepherd knitting, while watching his flock The Knitting Woman by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1869. Knitting is the process of using two or more needles to pull and loop yarn into a series of interconnected loops in order to create a finished garment or some other type of fabric.
Yarn companies offer free knitting patterns for these caps. The US-based charity Sheep Dreamzzz trains women in Nicaragua to knit baby blankets. They receive all of the profits. Nicaragua is the poorest country in Central America. The blankets are all hand-knitted and the women work inside a home.
19th century painting of a woman wearing a snood (by Adolph Menzel) Two women working at a Texas Naval Air Base in 1942, wearing hairnets (snoods) A snood (/ s n uː d /) is a type of traditionally female headgear, with two types known. The long-gone Scottish snood was a circlet made of ribbon worn by Scottish young women as a symbol of ...
Many things can be made from the resulting tube. For example, it can be wound in a spiral to produce a mat or rug or, if a larger spool with more nails is used, a sock or a hat could be made. Historically, spool knitting has been used to make horse reins. [1] Spool knitting is a traditional way to teach children the basic principles of knitting.
Lorna Hamilton-Brown MBE is an English artist, researcher, filmmaker and educator who has been called "the Banksy of knitting". [1] Her primary medium is machine knitting . [ 2 ] She is an advocate for the recognition of Black people 's contributions to the crafts of knitting and crochet and is a member of the BIPOC in Fiber initiative, for ...
Snood may refer to: Snood scarf, a tube-like scarf that can be used as a hood; Snood (headgear), a type of hood or hairnet; Snood (anatomy), an erectile, fleshy protuberance attached near the base of a turkey's beak; A type of bait holder used on a crabbing trotline; Snood, a 1996 puzzle game
Nålebound socks from Egypt (300–500 AD) Mittens done in "nålebinding" Swedish nålebinding mittens, late 19th century. Nålebinding (Danish and Norwegian: literally 'binding with a needle' or 'needle-binding', also naalbinding, nålbinding, nålbindning, or naalebinding) is a fabric creation technique predating both knitting and crochet.