The art of knitting is a beautiful endeavor that facilitates the production of clothing from cotton, silk, wool, and many other materials.
It can be a hand work as well machine work.
Methods of hand work vary to a great extent hence diversity in the end product.
Such methods include flat method, Circular and many other methods.
Different yarns also dictate on the different methods to be used and so does the diversity of needles, colors ,weight, different products.
For long, hand knitting had been neglected but it hit back and started doing fairly well especially in 2002 and 2004 with an increase of 150%.
It's history goes back to Paris.
Techniques and patterns are sometimes shared across the continents.
There has even been competitions in relation to the art.
Among the many types of knitting techniques include Weft and warp as the major techniques.
The weft requires just a single yarn unlike the Warp technique that calls for more than one yarn and can either be by hand or by use of machine.
Warp is just done by use of machines.
Other styles include circular, which creates seamless tube.
Its done by use of about 5 pointed needles.
Flat style on the other hand is used to make rectangular clothes, with the use of 2 needles.
The texture also varies accordingly.
We have Flat stockinette that is machine made and the most common simple texture is created by use of knit, purl, Arthur stitch, ribbing and moss stitches.
Among the other methods of knitting include the English method where yarn is held in the right hand and continental where the yarn is held on the left hand.
They can be done either by the hands or the machine.