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Hi everyone. I am wondering if anyone knows of any informative website on
the beginning of crochet and knitting. I have been looking but I just seem
to find sites with patterns and items for sale. I wanted to see where it
all started for both crochet and knitting. Any help will be greatly
appreciated. )

Thanks
Tammy

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Hi everyone. I am wondering if anyone knows of any informative website on
the beginning of crochet and knitting. I have been looking but I just seem
to find sites with patterns and items for sale. I wanted to see where it
all started for both crochet and knitting. Any help will be greatly
appreciated. )

Thanks
Tammy

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Hi everyone. I am wondering if anyone knows of any informative website on
the beginning of crochet and knitting. I have been looking but I just seem
to find sites with patterns and items for sale. I wanted to see where it
all started for both crochet and knitting. Any help will be greatly
appreciated. )

Hi, Tammy

I don't know about a website. There are a few books: Richart Rutt's
History of Knitting has been reprinted in paperback now, and it's about
the best that is currently available, though some of his information is
a little out of date. There's also a yahoo group, HistoricKnitting, where
this kind of thing is discussed.

Knitting seems to have begun in Egypt some time between the ninth and
twelfth century AD. It seems to have reached parts of Europe in the
twelfth century, but there aren't many pieces of evidence yet (some
were just found). It was pretty widespread by the fourteenth century,
and later several paintings were made showing the Madonna knitting
in the round.

Crochet is much younger; nobody has officially documented any crochet
until the nineteenth century; there is an early, "almost crochet"
sometimes called shepherd's knitting, that is just row after row of
slipstitch, mentioned around 1811 as being done by an old woman to make
warm underclothes for her husband. True crochet isn't documented until
later in the 19th century.

=Tamar