tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post5710103202009944415..comments2024-03-29T11:38:51.363+00:00Comments on Jean's Knitting: Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038517988391228260noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-46837532003027437512016-02-06T11:38:56.004+00:002016-02-06T11:38:56.004+00:00Kate Davies and her husband won the Microbusiness ...Kate Davies and her husband won the Microbusiness 2016 award in London the other night. I think she's blogged about it. She looked really pretty on stage! Between Me and Youhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04863155145862706966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-80250791564518168142016-02-04T15:13:01.956+00:002016-02-04T15:13:01.956+00:00Fascinating, Tamar, thank you! I will let my frien...Fascinating, Tamar, thank you! I will let my friend know he's off the hook (not that he was ever on) for giving me sources (which he knows is far more about Melfina loves to read and learn and words are interesting rather than "are you sure that word's right?" and since he's the same way it works).<br />Most people around here refer to all hand yarn activities as either knitting or crochet depending on what they know about. Since my grandmother crocheted but couldn't knit and my mom knitted but couldn't crochet, I learned the difference early (before I could actually do either, though I remember a teacher trying when I was about 6 and I couldn't understand the bit about how to get old loop off one needle & new loop on other or even what was happening (brain wasn't ready for it, I learned to braid later too for mostly the same reason)). Melfinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14939155022202916671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-64973290885856663782016-02-03T22:07:09.670+00:002016-02-03T22:07:09.670+00:00Brief fact of the day: The overhead wires on the E...Brief fact of the day: The overhead wires on the Edinburgh to London line and on all the electrified lines are also called " The Knitting " by the rail engineers. Judithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01284457201328888459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-34855405080593052662016-02-03T19:34:29.248+00:002016-02-03T19:34:29.248+00:00That's very remarkable! Small world, indeed!That's very remarkable! Small world, indeed!Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12038517988391228260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-1879665339330927542016-02-03T18:41:27.693+00:002016-02-03T18:41:27.693+00:00"Well-knitted" for an interlaced pattern..."Well-knitted" for an interlaced pattern is probably either an enthusiastic modern translation, or possibly a translation of a word that was used for anything like that, such as "cnyttan", to tie with a knot, bind, or fasten. Related to cnotta and to Old Norse knytja, meaning to tie a knot. But Gerald would have written in latin, and the fanciest Latin he could come up with, probably "macula", the mesh of a net. "Knitting" is used for the process of making a net, though moderns (who care) tend to call it "netting". Even in the 17th century they weren't careful to specify.<br /><br />"Knitting" hadn't entered England yet; it had reached Estonia by the 13th century and there was a knitting guild in France in 1268, but those are well after Gerald's time. <br /><br />Nowadays it's a common term for making chain mail, or maille, but it seems to be a back-formation from the documentable use of the same words for making nets.=Tamarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-70157572777701424472016-02-03T18:26:08.615+00:002016-02-03T18:26:08.615+00:00Goodness me it's a small world....
I work in a...Goodness me it's a small world....<br />I work in a yarn store/mill way down under in Napier NZ...I got chatting to a lovely customer from Scotland (Edinburgh no less) yesterday and she turned out to be 'your' Kathy from Kathy's Knits. She said to say hello :)<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11490452545555955335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-20916963237155561732016-02-03T17:19:02.159+00:002016-02-03T17:19:02.159+00:00Or bones knitting together after a break.Or bones knitting together after a break.Hatnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-54976596759844491072016-02-03T15:39:44.846+00:002016-02-03T15:39:44.846+00:00I'm kinda leaning towards Karen's idea. Of...I'm kinda leaning towards Karen's idea. Of course, he could also have meant what we now call nalbinding, which we know was around at the time, right?<br />I have a chainmail making friend who refers to it as knitting and he insists it's not an uncommon term for making chainmail. He has yet to find me any documentation on that use of the term though, so who knows?Melfinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14939155022202916671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-27635947496604208602016-02-03T14:52:21.285+00:002016-02-03T14:52:21.285+00:00I had the same reaction to the Celts exhibition - ...I had the same reaction to the Celts exhibition - I found the gift shop more inspiring, actually. Just love that fascinating link to the Irish Library - your "Comments" sets the bar very high.shandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17372329387935318023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-34474954715493687262016-02-03T10:17:48.940+00:002016-02-03T10:17:48.940+00:00"knitted" in this instance could mean jo..."knitted" in this instance could mean joined or interlinked, rather than the handicraft (as in "knitted brow"Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17519649000718078155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-41646275689259472362016-02-03T08:35:52.204+00:002016-02-03T08:35:52.204+00:00Hi Jean, Try this link. It has the G of W quote wi...Hi Jean, Try this link. It has the G of W quote with the citation. Looks like a pretty good web page: http://www.nli.ie/blog/index.php/2012/11/29/there-once-was-a-welsh-priest-called-gerald/Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03733860352279932709noreply@blogger.com