Re:The First Granny Square Pattern
by eesmith on Monday March 14, 2022 @09:24AM
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The article is clear that there are related technologies, but they are not the same:
> “I’m not aware of a single verified example of European or American crochet in the 17th or 18th century,” Jay Templin said. Crochet-type hooks were used for lacemaking, but not for what we now know as crochet. Blankets in this era were strictly made of woven fabric. “We don’t see any knit or crocheted blankets in the colonies at all; they show up in the U.S. in the middle 19th century,”
The Wikipedia entry adds:
> Knitted textiles survive from as early as the 11th century CE, but the first substantive evidence of crocheted fabric emerges in Europe during the 19th century.[5] Earlier work identified as crochet was commonly made by nålebinding, a different looped yarn technique.
I can find no mention of how crocheting came directly out of making or mending fishing nets. Looking at descriptions of how to make fishing nets (eg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8gQ8MR-bb0) they don't look similar.
Indeed, quoting the nålebinding entry in WP:
> the technique is distinct from crochet in that it involves passing the full length of the working thread through each loop, unlike crochet where the work is formed only of loops, never involving the free end.
while that fishing net example shows passing the rest of the line ("the free end") through the net.
> “I’m not aware of a single verified example of European or American crochet in the 17th or 18th century,” Jay Templin said. Crochet-type hooks were used for lacemaking, but not for what we now know as crochet. Blankets in this era were strictly made of woven fabric. “We don’t see any knit or crocheted blankets in the colonies at all; they show up in the U.S. in the middle 19th century,”
The Wikipedia entry adds:
> Knitted textiles survive from as early as the 11th century CE, but the first substantive evidence of crocheted fabric emerges in Europe during the 19th century.[5] Earlier work identified as crochet was commonly made by nålebinding, a different looped yarn technique.
I can find no mention of how crocheting came directly out of making or mending fishing nets. Looking at descriptions of how to make fishing nets (eg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8gQ8MR-bb0) they don't look similar.
Indeed, quoting the nålebinding entry in WP:
> the technique is distinct from crochet in that it involves passing the full length of the working thread through each loop, unlike crochet where the work is formed only of loops, never involving the free end.
while that fishing net example shows passing the rest of the line ("the free end") through the net.