And the Aran sweater market (both generally speaking and the actual website/store) probably makes bank off of “family patterns” and whatnot.
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Oh man this person saying this stuff is writing or has written her thesis on this? And she said that her research pointed towards the symbolism of the stitches and that the patterns are family based. Oh man.
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Replying to @HeartOfAnvil
Now she said “thesis” so maybe this is for undergrad but I just...it’s so easily googled. It’s on the Wikipedia page.
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I hope for her sake she gets around to checking that
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Me too. Her thesis is on the “history of knitting” and her argument is that knitting was developed by fishermen because they had time to kill on boats? I should tag in
@NeolithicSheep on this one. I didn’t want to just completely rag on this person but it seems her research 1/2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
Had a lot of problems. She said that the earliest examples of knitting being from Egypt may just be a case for the preservation environment of the desert. But does she not get that pastoral cultures exist?
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Naalbinding, I think? The early Egyptian textiles she's referring to.
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Yeah, her thesis doesn’t track with prior scholarly research (Elizabeth Wayland Barber’s comes to mind)
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Doubled checked in EWB’s book Prehistoric Textiles and it’s likely the thesis is mixing up sprang with knitting. (Which is common.) EWB says near the bottom of 122 that earliest knitting example is from Mid 3rd cent CE Syria.pic.twitter.com/YQg3IrlSUU
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She didn’t say it was Neolithic or Iron Age, she just said the earliest example is from Egypt but she didn’t give the date (which is 11th c AD). But that’s just what I read on Wikipedia.
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