LL-L "Crafts" 2006.02.20 (06) [E]

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   L O W L A N D S - L * 20 February 2006 * Volume 06
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From: Global Moose Translations <globalmoose at t-online.de>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2006.02.20 (04) [E]

Jacqueline,

I shall look into the history of knitting as soon as I can (I'll have to go
back to the hospital tomorrow for another three days or so). It's one of my
hobbies, my specialty being complicated Aran designs and Icelandic/Fair Isle
type sweaters.

As far as I know, at least around here, knitting socks was traditionally
done by men - shepherds who needed something to keep them occupied while the
herd was grazing (BTW, one quarter of my ancestors were Lower Saxon
shepherds, and I used to breed sheep in Oregon, just for the heck of it).

Gabriele Kahn

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Crafts

Gabriele, you wrote:


> Actually, as far as I know, the art of knitting has been > invented in 
> more
> than one area. So why not socks, too?Makes sense to me.  After all, they 
> had sheep and wool, and they had a need for socks.  I was just going by 
> what I had read, which made it sound as though shoes of sort and leggings 
> had been used and that the idea of what we call socks may have been 
> Middle-East-inspired.  I now kind of suspect this to be an assumption 
> based on the fact that knitted socks were found in ancient Egyptian tombs. 
> You know how people tend to think: "The earliest known socks. So this is 
> where it started!"  For all we know, socks may have been invented millenia 
> earlier in various places.

Good luck with the next hospital stint!
Reinhard/Ron 

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