Talk:History of knitting

Older comment
The Aran Islands aren't in Scotland so I made a minor change and stuck Ireland into the sentence until someone gets a chance to elaborate on Irish knitting. Cate (daylilly)

I came here specifically to request someone do something about this senseless addition. The section is about Scotland. This paragraph needs a new home. IcehouseCover (talk) 13:04, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

Consolidation with knitting article?
Is there a reason that this article shouldn't be consolidated with the main article about knitting? Many Wikipedia entries have History sections in them, and this one should be no exception.


 * I tend to agree, however it would make the knitting page very long --Knerq 20:40, 27 September 2005 (UTC)


 * I think the article is certainly long enough and interesting enough to stand on its own and there is a briefer sketch in the main knitting page, just as is the practice with most countries and so forth. I would oppose a merge. Rigadoun (talk) 18:47, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Intro
The article could benefit from a small intro just giving a basic definition of what it's about, It would help orientate the reader towards what's to come insteadof jumping right in, and is also preferred by the MoS. Would look better as well (not that it's not already quite nice). --DanielCD 01:34, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

For my purposes, (which were anthropological in nature, and connect to cultural diffusion), the separate article took me directly to what I wanted to know, and was unexpectedly time-efficient. I almost want to say that any given topic should be accessible using a 'history of' search. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.59.241.121 (talk) 23:56, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Knitting Olympics?
I don't think getting a few thousand online people to sign up and say they are knitting something within a time frame quite puts a blog onto the level of notability as the rest of the article. The comparison with the 2006 Torino Olympics is spurious — there is no bar to get into the Knitting Olympics so one would expect the numbers to be far greater than those who went to the real olympics! I am removing its undue emphasis from the article (its own separate heading), it looks quite silly to give some blog event this much attention in a longue duree history of knitting. --140.247.249.200 20:09, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Beyond a Eurocentric focus
I removed the uncited "knitting in Europe probably originated in Scandinavia" comment and added a reference about the probable origin of knitting in the Middle East.

This article could use more about the history of knitting outside of Europe, and a more balanced take on knitting within Europe. If Scotland gets called out, surely Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Iceland, Armenia and other regions' distinct folk knitting histories could use a mention or at least a link.

Outside Europe, I know there are established knitting traditions in the Middle East, the Andes (Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador) and Coast Salish territories (pacific northwest North America). If anyone gets the itch, the website "Geography of Knitting" has a list of reference books that would be a good start. http://geographyofknitting.blogspot.com/

Smundy (talk) 00:53, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, Smundy. I am in complete agreement. This article is not just Euro-centric, but very British Isles-centric. I'll try to add more detail when i have a bit more time. Ellenois (talk) 18:00, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

Copy vio
The article seems to be a copy vio of this source. I'll work on finding new working references and rework the article.Truthkeeper88 (talk) 02:40, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
 * What makes you think that? The page says "The source of this article is Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia".Ewx (talk) 08:01, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I didn't scroll to the bottom line, but only saw that the text was an exact replication of the text in the article. I was looking for new references for this article. Truthkeeper88 (talk) 12:40, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

knitting and crochet during the civil war.
do you think that you can merge my document in with yours? it has alot to do on knitting during the civil war.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knitting_and_crochet_during_the_civil_war —Preceding unsigned comment added by Iceveela (talk • contribs) 11:31, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

stunning results without years of experience?
I think the meaning here is that there are yarns which have self-striping, or self-patterning qualities, meaning that the knitting needs to know very little, if anything about color palette blending or color changing techniques, nothing about these yarns necessarily results in a product that is stunning, nor does it preclude the years of experience needed to make a item with stunning results. "Stunning results" is more usually a measure of evenness of stitch, which is something that only practice (regardless of time) develops, regardless of color pattern or choice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.210.231.250 (talk) 17:50, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

archaeological textiles
I put in some places (including references) where early proves of knitted goods were found in europe. If I get my hands on more detail, I'll add it. Maybe someone with material on that could do the same for places / finds from outside europe? --212.144.226.52 (talk) 13:14, 31 March 2011 (UTC) Benutzer:Aerinsol from the german Wikipedia.
 * Thank you for your contribution. I have copyedited it but did not change the content at all; it is valuable information.  However it might be worth mentioning that the word "knitting" was sometimes used to represent processes different from what we understand as hand-knitting today.  So in my opinion the archaeological evidence is usually reliable, but the tax lists are not reliable as evidence in isolation. That is only my opinion of course.--Storye book (talk) 16:16, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Possible New External Link
I moderate the Culture Victoria website and have a video about a WWII soldier and his knitting activities while a prisoner of war. The story is extraordinary, the knitted item attractive and unique, and it is an unusual example of a man knitting during that period. Please let me know if you think it is appropriate to add it as an external link: http://www.cv.vic.gov.au/stories/but-thats-another-story/9394/jim-simpsons-knitted-war-trophy/ .Eleworth (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 02:29, 28 April 2011 (UTC).

Assessment comment
Substituted at 18:02, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

This article needs help!
This article is a bit ramshackle. The earlier sections seem to be mashed together and very weasely in referring to general "eras." I wonder if anybody wants to take the time to overhaul this article? If not, I'm going to go do some actual academic research, because this article is basically a fireside folklore guess at history. IcehouseCover (talk) 13:13, 29 October 2017 (UTC)

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