About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 131. Chapters: American craft, American Craft Council, Anglo-Japanese style, Aquascaping, Architectural model, Artisan, Arts and Crafts movement, Basketweave, Basket weaving, Black Forest clockmakers, Bookbinding, Bottle cutting, Bricklayer, British Society of Master Glass Painters, Buyers Market of American Craft, Cabinet making, Caneworking, Carpentry, Cittacotte, Crafts Association of British Columbia, Crafts Council, Crafts of India, Craft Northern Ireland, Craft production, Craft unionism, Crochet, Currier, D. V. Gajjar, Dyeing, Ebeniste, Faceting machine, Faux bois, Florentine crafts, Fred & Eric, Glitter, Guild, Handicraft, Heritage Crafts Association, Intarsia, znik pottery, Kamrupi Crafts, Knitting, Leah Kramer, M. R. Prajapati, Master craftsman, Master Craftsman Studio, Metal clay, Nuno felting, Oil-paper umbrella, Outline of crafts, Pallet crafts, Parchment craft, Penland School of Crafts, Plasterer, Red Wing Collectors Society, Reed mat (craft), Sailor's valentine, Sand Glass, Scratchboard, Sewing, Shoemaking, Shreni, Sloyd, Soft sculpture, Sparkleball, Studio craft, Studio Furniture, Studio pottery, The Renegade Craft Fair, Tradesman, Traditional upholstery, Uppercase magazine, Watchmaker, World Crafts Council, Worshipful Company of Butchers, Worshipful Company of Cordwainers, Worshipful Company of Curriers, Worshipful Company of Cutlers, Worshipful Company of Girdlers, Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, Worshipful Company of Leathersellers. Excerpt: Knitting is a method by which thread or yarn is used to create a cloth. Knitted fabric consists of consecutive rows of loops, called stitches. As each row progresses, a new loop is pulled through an existing loop. The active stitches are held on a needle until another loop can be passed through them. This process eventually results in a fabric, often used for garments. Knitting may be done by hand or by machine. There exist numerous styles and methods of hand knitting. Different types of yarns and needles may be used to achieve a plethora of knitted materials; these tools give the final piece a different colour, texture, weight, and/or integrity. Other factors that affect the end result include the needle's shape, thickness and malleability, as well as the yarn's fibre type, texture and twist. Structure of stockinette, a common knitted fabric. The meandering red path defines one course, the path of the yarn through the fabric. The uppermost white loops are unsecured and "active," but they secure the red loops suspended from them. In turn, the red loops secure the white loops just below them, which in turn secure the loops below them, and so on. Alternating wales of red and white knit stitches. Each stitch in a wale is suspended from the one above it.Like weaving, knitting is a technique for producing a two-dimensional fabric made from a one-dimensional yarn or thread. In weaving, threads are always straight, running parallel either lengthwise (warp threads) or crosswise (weft threads). By contrast, the yarn in knitted fabrics follows a meandering path (a course), forming symmetric loops (also called bights) symmetrically above and below the mean path of the yarn. These meandering loops can be stretched easily in different directions, which gives knitting much more elasticity than woven fabrics; depending on the yarn and knitting pattern, knitted garments can stretch as much as 500%. For this reason, knitting was initially developed for garments that must be elastic
