Sorry, the source makes it obvious that they know knit from crochet.. and
that they make it clear that they are talking about two different
techniques. This is the NESAT (Northern European Society of Archaeological
Textiles). This is a peer reviewed scholarly journal... they are extremely
well versed in textiles.
Glad to know they know. It didn't sound like they knew, to me, from just
your snippet.
"Crochet" is generally considered a 19th century technique, but I have not
found anything creditable on it's early evolution... just speculation.
And there are no extant examples before then either, so it all has to be
speculation.
CarolynKayta Barrows
dollmaker, fibre artist, textillian
www.FunStuft.com
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