In the 1950s, crocheters began to use thicker yarns to create less delicate clothing and home items, though thread crocheting remained more popular until about 1960. The craft remained primarily a homemaker's art until the late 1960s when the younger generation picked up on crochet. Often using granny squares, a motif worked in the round, and incorporating bright colors, these designs became indicative of the era. Although crochet underwent a subsequent decline in popularity, it has recently benefited from a revival of interest in handcrafts among the younger generation, as well as great strides in improv ...

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The word crochet is derived from the Middle French word croc or croche, meaning hook. It describes the process of creating fabric from a length of cord, yarn, or thread with a Crochet hook. The origin of the crochet technique is a subject of considerable controversy. The word is not to be confused with "crotchet", otherwise known as a quarter note. Crochet - Definition. Crocheted fabric in the modern sense is begun by placing a slip-knot loop on the hook, pulling another loop thr ...

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Knitting with the yarn in one's left hand is commonly referred to as Continental knitting, left-hand knitting or European knitting. Unlike English knitting, the yarn is kept in the left hand and more importantly, the left hand never leaves the needle. While the English knitter can work by lifting the one hand up off the needle to wrap yarn around the opposite needle, the Continental knitter ...

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Lace-making is an ancient craft. Lace is a lightweight, openwork fabric, patterned with open holes in the work, made by machine or by hand. The holes can be formed via removal of threads or cloth from a previously woven fabric, but more often lace the open spaces are created as part of the lace fabric. Originally linen, silk, gold, or silver threads were used. Now lace is often made with cotton thread. Manufactured lace may be made o ...

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A button is small disc- or knob-shaped object attached to cloth or an article of clothing in order to secure an opening, or for ornamentation. Functional buttons work by slipping the buttons through a fabric or thread loop, or by sliding the button through a slit called a buttonhole. Buttons may be manufactured from an extremely broad variety of materials, including horn, shell, bone and antler, ivory, metal, ...

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Beadwork is the art or craft of attaching beads to one another or to cloth using a needle and thread. Most beadwork takes the form of jewelry or other personal adornment, but beads are also used in wall hangings and sculpture. Beadwork techniques are broadly divided into loom and off-loom weaving, stringing, bead embroidery, bead crochet, and bead knitting. Most cultures have employed beads for personal adornment. Archaeological records show that people made and used beads as long as 5000 years ago. Beads have also been used for religious purposes, ...

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A beanie or skully is a soft, close-fitting cap or hat, which is usually made of wool, synthetic material, or fleece. They are worn low on the head, covering the forehead, and can be pulled down over the ears as well. They can be worn by either sex, but are more commonly worn by men. The name "beanie" probably comes from the early-20th century slang term "bean," meaning "head." Beanies can have a turn-up, and skullies are sometimes crocheted; otherwise, the terms are interchangeable. There are two main varieties o ...

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Greater burdock (Arctium lappa) is a biannual plant of the Asteraceae family, cultivated in gardens for its root used as a vegetable. Greater burdock - Description. The plant is rather high, reaching as much as 2 metres. It has large, alternating, cordiform leaves that have a long petiole and are pubescent on the inferior face. The flowers are purple and grouped in globular capitula, united in clusters. They appear in mid-summer (July-August). The capitula are surrounded by a involucre made ou ...

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Arts and crafts comprise a whole host of activities and hobbies that are related to making things with one's own hands and skill. These can be sub-divided into handicrafts or "traditional crafts" (doing things the old way) and the rest. Some crafts have been practised for centuries, while others are modern inventions, or popularisations of crafts which were originally practiced in a very small geographic area. Additionally, this term refers to the Arts and Crafts movement which was a social revolution veiled in a design ...

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Knitting is one of several ways to turn thread or yarn into cloth (compare to weaving, crochet). Unlike woven fabric, knitted fabric consists entirely of horizontal parallel courses of yarn. The courses are joined to each other by interlocking loops in which a short loop of one course of yarn is wrapped over the bight of another course. Knitting can be done either by hand, described below, or by knitting machine. In practice, hand knitting is usually begun (or "cast on") by forming a base series of twisted loops of yarn on a knitting ...

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The 1887 Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaii, commonly known as the Bayonet Constitution by its opponents, was a 1887 Reform Constitution written by Lorrin A. Thurston and imposed on the Kingdom of Hawai'i and its monarch David Kalākaua by a group of American and European businessmen and an armed militia, associated with a secret society called the Hawaiian League in favor of annexation to the United States. The Bayonet Constitution gets its name from Kalākaua being forced at gunpoint on July 6, with a bayonet at his throat ...

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Williams was born in Webster, New York. She dropped out of high school in the ninth grade. At the age of sixteen she hitch-hiked her way to Colorado where she earned money selling crocheted string bikinis. She headed for Florida and then to Europe, where she worked as a stripper. By 1978, she was regularly performing in live sex shows, and soon began appearing in pornographic films, among them 1979's Candy Goes to Hollywood. Around that time, would-be Svengali Rod Swenson, also known as Captain Kink, recruited her to front his punk co ...

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Crochet Work

• To dream of doing crochet work, foretells your entanglement in some silly affair growing out of a too great curiosity about other people's business. Beware of talking too frankly with over-confidential women.

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Around the world, crochet became a thriving cottage industry, supporting communities whose traditional livelihoods had been displaced by imperialism. The finished items were purchased mainly by the emerging middle class. The introduction of crochet as an imitation of a status symbol, rather than a unique craft in its own right, had stigmatized the practice as common. Those who could afford lace made by older and more expensive methods disdained crochet as a cheap copy. This impression was partially mitigated by Queen Victoria, who conspicuou ...

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Some theorize that crochet evolved from traditional practices in Arabia, South America, or China, but there is no decisive evidence of the craft being performed before its popularity in Europe during the 1800s. Many find it likely that crochet was in fact used by early cultures but that a bent forefinger was used in place of a fashioned hook; therefore, there were no artifacts left behind to attest to the practice. These writers point to the "simplicity" of the technique and cl ...

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Button - Button sizes. Buttons are measured in lignes or lines, with 40 lignes equal to 1 inch. ...

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Once the fiber has been turned into yarn the process of making cloth is much the same for any type of fibre, be it animal or plant. Textile manufacturing - Knitting. Knitting by hand is a trend that is slowly growing throughout the United States. Commonly knitted goods are scarfs (both decorative and functional), sweaters, socks and shawls. Hand knitting can either be done "flat" or "in the round". Flat knitting is done on a set of single point knitting needles, and the knitter goes back and forth, adding ...

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Textile manufacturing, Textile manufacturing - Hand processing: yarn formation, Textile manufacturing - Wool, Textile manufacturing - Flax, Textile manufacturing - Machine Processing: yarn formation, Textile manufacturing - Cotton, Textile manufacturing - Yucca, Textile manufacturing - Hand Processing- Fabric Formation, Textile manufacturing - Knitting, Textile manufacturing - Crochet, Textile manufacturing - Lace, Textile manufacturing - Weaving, Textile manufacturing - Machine processing: fabric formation, Textile manufacturing - Knitting, Textile manufacturing - Lace, Textile manufacturing - Weaving, Textile manufacturing - Decoration, Textile manufacturing - Dyeing, Textile manufacturing - Bleaching, Textile manufacturing - Embroidery

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Homer Wells, an un-adopted orphan, is the book's central protagonist; Homer grew up in an orphanage directed by Dr. Wilbur Larch. Dr. Larch is also secretly an abortionist, and believes that he is doing the world a service because "one way the poor can help themselves would to be in control of the size of their families." Dr. Larch also refers to abortion as "The Lord's Work" and trains Homer in the realm of gynecology/abortions in a paternal way. The novel continues as Homer decides to leave the orphanage with Candy Kendall and her boyfrien ...

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