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

[John Glenn]

Thanks for the responses! So many fascinating crafts, cultures and time 
periods, too little time.
John
On May 23, 2005, at 1:26 PM, SNSpies at aol.com wrote:

>
> 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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