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2. Spool knitting - Wikipedia

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   Fingerless gloves being knitted on a plastic 12-peg frame. Spool knitting, loom knitting, corking, French knitting, or tomboy knitting is a form of knitting that uses a spool with a number of nails or pegs around the rim to produce a tube or sheet of fabric. The spool knitting devices are called knitting spools, knitting nancys, knitting frame ...

3. List of knitting stitches - Wikipedia

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   A raised increase, knitting into row below (k-b, k 1 b) A lifted increase, knitting into the yarn between the stitches (inc, m1) Knit front and back (kfb) Purl front and back (, pass slipped stitch over (S1, K1, PSSO) for a left-leaning decrease. Knit two together through the back loops (K2tog tbl) for a left-leaning decrease.

4. Knitting - Wikipedia

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   In the historical projects, yarn companies provided knitting patterns approved by the various branches of the armed services; often they were distributed by local chapters of the American Red Cross. Modern projects usually entail the hand knitting of hats or helmet liners; the liners provided for soldiers must be of 100% worsted weight wool and ...

5. 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.

6. Sprang - Wikipedia

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   A demonstration of sprang manufacture using a loom. In principle, sprang may be regarded as a practical application of the fiber manipulation techniques used in the children's game known as cat's cradle. [1] Sprang is made by preparing a set of warp threads either on a rectangular frame or between a pair of beams.

7. Loom - Wikipedia

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   The Jacquard loom is a mechanical loom, invented by Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1801, which simplifies the process of manufacturing figured textiles with complex patterns such as brocade, damask, and matelasse. [26] [27] The loom is controlled by punched cards with punched holes, each row of which corresponds to one row of the design. Multiple ...