[MR] Romans commit fashion faux-pas (Fwd: [Explorator] DigestNumber 383)

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Your confusion about knitting is understandable; it is only recently that a  
concerted effort has been made to clarify the issue.  Experts have gone  back 
and reexamined all the so-called early,i.e. pre-10th-century "knitting",  and 
found it to be nalbinding.  True knitting, as we know it, is definitely  an 
Islamic textile technique from probably no earlier than the 9th  century.
 
This is one of the "myths" that many of us are trying to dispell in the  
world of medieval textiles.
 
Nancy  

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Nancy  Spies
Arelate Studio
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Ingvild  Josefsdatter, OL
Bright Hills, Atlantia

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