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2. Cowichan knitting - Wikipedia

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   The teaching of patterned sweater knitting is generally attributed to a settler from the Shetland Islands, Jerimina Colvin. [4] Mrs. Colvin settled in Cowichan Station in 1885, raised sheep, and hand-spun and dyed her own wool. She probably began to teach knitting by the 1890s, and added patterns as she learned them from other Scottish settlers ...

3. Fair Isle (technique) - Wikipedia

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   Fair Isle (/fɛəraɪ̯l/) is a traditional knitting technique used to create patterns with multiple colours. It is named after Fair Isle , one of the Shetland Islands . Fair Isle knitting gained considerable popularity when the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII ) wore Fair Isle jumpers in public in 1921.

4. Crochet - Wikipedia

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   Crochet hooks used for Tunisian crochet are elongated and have a stopper at the end of the handle, while double-ended crochet hooks have a hook on both ends of the handle. Tunisian crochet hooks are shaped without a fat thumb grip and thus can hold many loops on the hook at a time without stretching some to different heights than others (Solovan).

5. Knitting - Wikipedia

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   Cable patterns tend to draw the fabric together, making it denser and less elastic; [11] Aran sweaters are a common form of knitted cabling. [12] Arbitrarily complex braid patterns can be done in cable knitting , with the proviso that the wales must move ever upwards; it is generally impossible for a wale to move up and then down the fabric.

6. Sweater curse - Wikipedia

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   The "sweater curse" or "curse of the love sweater" is a term used by knitters and crocheters to describe the belief that if a knitter or crocheter gives a hand-knit sweater to a significant other, it will lead to the recipient breaking up with the knitter. [1]

7. Aran jumper - Wikipedia

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   The first commercially available Aran knitting patterns were published in the 1940s by Patons of England. Vogue magazine carried articles on the garment in the 1950s, and jumper exports from the west of Ireland to the United States began in the early 1950s. Standun in Spiddal, Co.Galway was the first to export the Aran sweater to the USA.