Knitting

See also: Knitting (homonymy)

The knitting is a Technique making it possible to produce a fabric from a continuous wire of Laine or others textile fibers. Knitting is generally practiced with the hand with two large needles whose diameter varies according to the size of the wire used and the size of the wished meshs, but it can also be carried out using a Knitting loom even if it is not any more question of knitting in this case.

Knitting on two needles is carried out row after row: at the end of a row on the right side of the fabric, one turns over the work to work on back. The fabric obtained is plane. So that the work is right on its edges, it is recommended not to knit the first mesh of each row.

One can also knit in round, to obtain a tube. One then uses either a set of four or five needles, or a circular needle made up of two points connected by a plastic cable. Work is carried out then constantly on the place of the work. This technique was traditionally used to knit the Bas and Chaussette S, but it can be also used to knit Pull S, particularly with a circular needle.

The base of knitting is the mesh carried out at the place or with back known as nets place and mesh towards; a combination of meshs is called a point.
The basic points are the point “foams” (all the rows are knitted “meshs at the place” in knitting flat) and the point “jersey” (a row at the place, a row with back in knitting flat, always at the place in circular knitting). But the two meshs can be declined at will, either to make coasts (to alternate on the same row, in a way equal and uniform, meshs at the place and meshs with back), or to make points imaginations. To carry out some of these points, one will also use the simple or double overcasting in addition to the mesh place and the mesh towards. Combined with meshs knitted together or folded back, openwork points are obtained.

One can thus create all kinds of works, sometimes by having recourse to other accessories (switches with twists, rings of marking, pins of waitings, etc).

History

The Egyptian low-reliefs deliver already representations of divinities carrying of the dress S-sleeves in knitting. In the same way, this technique was also known in the Far East. It was brought back in Europe by the cross .

Until the medium of the Years 1980, knitting was a current domestic activity. but the increase in the cost of the Wool in ball, the fall of the cost of the industrially knitted articles and female work reduced this activity to the state of Loisir.

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