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two needles, one string, and the slow patient defeat of entropy
means To make fabric or a garment by interlocking loops of yarn with needles, or more loosely to join, mend, or draw things tightly together.
from From Old English cnyttan, 'to tie in a knot,' built on the same Germanic root that gives us 'knot' itself — a cousin of words across the North Sea like Dutch knot and Old Norse knútr. So before it meant looping yarn into sweaters, it simply meant fastening with knots; the sense of weaving loops on needles is the later, gentler descendant. The same knotting instinct survives in figurative phrases like a 'closely knit' family — bound, not just gathered.
- binary roots
- every pattern reduces to knit or purl
- war effort
- WWII civilians knit socks for frontline soldiers
- brain perks
- linked to lower stress and slower memory decline
- unkillable craft
- knitted fragments date back over a thousand years
- one thread
- a whole sweater unravels from a single snip
fair isle — traditional colorwork technique from fair isle, scotland, using multiple colors in geometric patterns
aran sweater — irish wool sweater with raised cable patterns, originating from aran islands in county galway
guernsey sweater — close-fitted wool sweater with textured patterns, historically knitted by fishermen on the island of guernsey