A quietly intriguing column from the brains behind QI, the BBC quiz show. This week: QI knits one, purls one
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The Knitting Madonna by Bertram of Minden, Visit of the Angel from the Buxtehude Altar, Germany 1400-10
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Explore Old Chum's 2804 photos on Flickr!
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Knitting is a pretty amazing craft. By moving a couple needles around and making loops in a piece of thread, you can create any piece of clothing and a wide range of other items. But where did it come from? How did the idea of looping thread around a set of knitting needles over and over again come to be? And how did it become so popular? In Who Invented Knitting? A Look into Knitting History, we hope to put an answer to those questions. Knitting has a twisted, but fascinating, history to…
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Knitting on the street in Bolivia.... by Zalacain, via Flickr
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^ Tom Kent, A Shetland Knitter: in this posed scene a woman knits a shawl of Shetland-lace type, while wearing a similar shawl, with another over her straw-backed chair. Other essential domestic it…
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History of Supported Needle Method
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I adore the fall…the cool air settling in…freshly sharpened pencils…mornings with tea and a good book… and, most importantly, the big fat fall fashion issues that are deliv…
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Old ancestry visit genealogy Scottish family history photograph image of a crofter kinitting outside her cottage on Fair Isle, Scotland:
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A 1923 Summer Sweater Kindly reproduced by Shay from Little Grey Bungalow Free 1920's Knitting Pattern Here
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