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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rrdenarius, post: 2504914, member: 75525&quot;]Ken, </p><p>Nice pieces and a great case of books!</p><p>My wife knits and I have looked for ancient knitting needles, but have not seen anything advertised as such. (I am glad she looks down her nose at crochet because it was invented in the 1800s and is not ancient.) I have purchased some spinning whorls, from you, a while back. She said that is interesting, but I am not into spinning yarn. I have bought a few sheep / yarn coins and tokens (including one from a JA auction). She likes those better. I have seen plenty of long skinny items on auctions, but they are advertised as medical instruments of needles. Have you seen anything listed as knitting needles? Should I keep looking, or just buy something advertised as a medical instrument and tell her it is an oooooooold needle?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]532059[/ATTACH] </p><p>The oldest knitted artifacts are socks from Egypt, dating from the 11th century CE. They are a very fine gauge, done with complex colorwork and some have a short row heel, which necessitates the purl stitch. These complexities suggest that knitting is even older than the archeological record can prove.</p><p><a href="http://www.cambridgepatchwork.co.uk/2016/01/the-history-of-knitting-part-1.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cambridgepatchwork.co.uk/2016/01/the-history-of-knitting-part-1.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cambridgepatchwork.co.uk/2016/01/the-history-of-knitting-part-1.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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