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Knitting curiosities | History of Knitting | We Are Knitters

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The history of knitting began long before you could imagine 🕰️, the first knitters were the Egyptians 🇪🇬, and it’s thanks to them that we can enjoy this incredible hobby nowadays! 🧶✨
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@csherma7 8 жыл бұрын

The early knit socks were cotton. I think you may have confused knitting with naalbinding in your research. (I've done the same thing, don't worry.) Richard Rutt published 'A History of Hand Knitting' and it is fabulous resource for early knitting. Great Channel reference!

@robyn3349 4 жыл бұрын

I just started my fifth pair of Covid socks, knitting as meditation.

@LionDEmil 3 жыл бұрын

Me too hahaha started last week. Still at my first sock. Trying different styles. XD

@brennanhuard966 5 жыл бұрын

You showed crochet items at the begining of this knitting video. Similar but not the same craft albeit both equally satisfying.

@catic15 6 ай бұрын

There's a fascinating video you might enjoy - it's on KZfaq, so easy to access - "Shetland knitters really did knit 200 stitches a minute!" Thecwoman who put it together has actual film footage from the very early 1900s showing just how fast women in some cultures could knit, and she does an excellent analysis of knitting techniques used back when it was a major part of the economy in the Shetland Islands.

@kaugusta1 4 жыл бұрын

Hmmm. A little condescending of Grandma's "funky sweaters" and knitting "hobby"! My grandmother knit beautiful cardigans and pullovers, and her talent was not unique among her generation (1900's - 1990's). Her "hobby" provided clothing that was strong, warm, lovely to look at, and made with love :)

@Joyride37 2 ай бұрын

Yeah it’s sad the art of making the very clothes we wear that allow us to express ourselves and keep us from dying of exposure to the elements is reduced and talked about as a quaint “hobby”

@solshine2510 3 жыл бұрын

There are so many resources online to enhance such video, like fragments of knitted textiles from thousands years ago, or complete, often very intricately woven garments from hundreds of years ago, preserved in museums, showing the unbelievable level of craftmanship.

@petermatten3315 4 жыл бұрын

Knitting was very common in the navy, the men knitted their own socks and sweaters, ect.,

@lesleeherschfus707 3 жыл бұрын

Abraham Lincoln knew how to knit

@premgarjan6197 Жыл бұрын

so cool to see a man promoting this art. here in Brazil it seems to be a mostly female hobby.

@crazyviking24 3 жыл бұрын

I am working on a beanie and a scarf right now.

@asamelvin1919 8 жыл бұрын

WOW!!! I knew knitting has history, BUT, I never would have guessed it went as far back as Egyptian times. Just think for a moment, socks and the great pryamids. Holy Mackerel!!! Totally mind bending!!! Now I wonder If knitting could have been done even further back in history??? Thanks Cassandra Sherman for the title of the book referencing knitting history, I most definitely will be checking into that one... And I need to find out what naalbinding is anyway!!! A rather Large Thank you to the folks at We Are Knitters for this (& their other) informative and Fun video(s)!!! ; >

@jordansmithson9602 7 жыл бұрын

It's really hard to tell when humans first started knitting because natural fibers like wool and plant material decompose. But it is really awesome to think of how far back that skill goes. When I knit, I am performing the same act that humans have been doing for thousands of years... with practically the same tools.

@patriciadiel2872 6 жыл бұрын

I always remember the ancient knitted doll made from wooly mammoth fiber - I read about in Piecework Magazine

@joannathesinger770 Жыл бұрын

Well...types of drop spindles made out of stones have been found in Neolithic settlements...and there's only one thing they were used for...spinning wool, hair, and other fibers into yarn. Stone aged people were definitely making yarn, so it seems reasonable that they were somehow crafting said yarn into fabrics...either by weaving or knitting...or perhaps felting. Looms or knitting needles were likely made of wood, so we will never know how they did it...because those items would have decayed along with the garments/fabrics made.