05/29/2020
💖Knitting💖 - the process of manufacturing a fabric or products (usually clothing items or interior items) from one or more threads by bending them into loops and connecting the loops to each other using simple tools, manually (a crochet hook, knitting needles, needle, fork; or simply fingers) or on a special machine (mechanical knitting). Knitting, as a technique, refers to the types of weaving.
⏳The history of knitting.⏳
Nobody knows who and when came up with the first chain, but it has long been known that this miracle chain was born long before our era. Even in the frozen lava of Pompeii, archaeologists have discovered prints of knitted stockings.
In Egypt, in one of the Coptic tombs, knitted socks were found (other sources speak of a children's knitted shoe), date from the 4th-5th centuries, the most ancient (3rd century, Prato Nazca era) knitted items of the New World were found in Peru. High quality workmanship from the graves of Copts suggests that the knitting technique was known much earlier.
In 1867, William Felkin hypothesized that knitting was known even during the Trojan War. According to Felkin, the dress that Penelope’s heroine of the Odyssey dismissed every night didn’t actually weave, but knit, because only in the latter case the loose thread would not be deformed, and the process itself would take a little time. The fact that in the Odyssey the term “fabric” is used, Felkin explained by the inaccuracy of the translation and the mistakes of the scribes. Images in ancient Greek vases of captured Trojans in tight, tight-fitting trousers give grounds for some researchers to claim that the Greeks knew knitting. It is possible that the prophet Daniel depicted in the Book of Kells (about 800) is clothed in tight trousers (a prototype of modern leggings) connected by an Aranian pattern.
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