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2. Fair Isle (technique) - Wikipedia

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   Traditionally, Fair Isle jumper construction involves knitting the body of the jumper completely in the round. Steeks (from the Scottish word meaning 'stitch', 'to close shut', and comprising several stitches) are worked across the armhole openings allowing the body to be completed in the round without interruption. Once the main body of the ...

3. Christmas jumper - Wikipedia

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   A Christmas jumper (also Christmas sweater, or ugly sweater due to their over the top designs) is a sweater themed with a Christmas or winter-style design, often worn during the festive season. They are often knitted. A more traditional approach is a roll neck (or "turtleneck") top-pulled garment. It can generally be said that embellishments ...

4. Stitch (textile arts) - Wikipedia

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   In the textile arts, a stitch is a single turn or loop of thread, or yarn. Stitches are the fundamental elements of sewing , knitting , embroidery , crochet , and needle lace -making, whether by hand or machine. [ 1 ]

5. List of sewing stitches - Wikipedia

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   Pad stitch – secures two or more layers of fabric together and provide firmness; Pick stitch – hand stitch that catches only a few threads on the wrong side of the fabric, difficult to produce nicely so typically used for hemming high quality garments; Running stitch – hand stitch for seams and gathering; Saddle stitch - alternating ...

6. Glossary of sewing terms - Wikipedia

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   A gathered overlay. The fabric is gathered on two parallel sides and stitched to an underlay, creating a shelf effect. It is often done in sheers, like chiffon running stitch A running stitch is an embroidery stitch that passes in and out of the fabric in a straight line. This stitch can be used to baste fabric pieces together.

7. History of knitting - Wikipedia

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   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.

8. Drop-stitch knitting - Wikipedia

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   Close-up view of a hand-knitted drop stitch scarf. Drop-stitch knitting is a knitting technique for producing open, vertical stripes in a garment.The basic idea is to knit a solid fabric, then (deliberately) drop one or more stitches (i.e., draw a loop out from the loop below it, and so on repeatedly), producing a run (or ladder) in the fabric.

9. Warp knitting - Wikipedia

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   Stitch-bonding machines are used for the sewing processing of nonwoven fabric, to increase its fastness and toughness. The stitch-bonding warp knitting machine or Non-woven warp knitting machine is for producing technical textiles such as shoe interlining, shopping bag, geotextile dewatering bags, reinforced composite glass fiber textile and ...