Strickliesel
A Strickliesel is a small device for making knitting cords. The Strickliesel is usually made of wood and has a hole along the central axis, from the lower opening of which the knitted fabric appears in the course of knitting. Four to eight hooks are attached to the upper opening, with the help of which the knitting takes place. A wool thread is placed over an existing loop and this is then placed with a needle through the eyelet on the upper cord over the hook. So it goes on all around.
Not only wool is suitable for knitting with the Strickliesel, but other materials such as B. thread or string in question. A simple knitting spool can be made from an (empty) wooden spool of thread and 4 driven nails. A semi-automatic variant is called the “knitting mill”. A variant of the Strickliesel is the knotting star .
A clay knitted woolen from the Roman Empire was found in 1913 on the site of the deserted Stätteklingen near Grumbach (Bad Langensalza) .
Trivia
The longest cord ever made with a knitting loaf is over 30 km long and brought Edward Hannaford into the Guinness Book of Records in 2016 .
Web links
- Strickforum: Instructions for use ( Memento from August 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Zzzebra web magazine for children: explanation
- Strickmühlenmuseum: Strickliesel - Strickmühle? Meaning of the terms ( Memento from May 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bruno Krüger (Ed.): Die Germanen: From the beginnings to the 2nd century of our era , Volume 4 of the publications of the Central Institute for Ancient History and Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1976, p. 480 f .; Google book
- ↑ Strickliesel , porta-praehistorica.de, blog porta-praehistorica.de on the prehistory and early history of Regina and Thomas Schiebel
- ^ Longest French knitting , guinnessworldrecords.com