Re: any loom knitting here? (fwd)

Jul 11, 2007 2 Replies

Melinda Please READ my first answer , my point was that i am not happy with the use o9f the name loom for the knitting activity ,,,,, and that in this case it should be called Frame ,,, i say that the word Loom should be kept for the WEAVING activity ..... mirjam



>I have no idea what kind of knitting machine you are talking about, but
>my knitting machine as well as my knitting looms (e.g. hand ones) knit
>*exactly* the same as knitting, except that each stitch is held on a
>separate hook (knitting machine) or peg (hand knitting loom), but they
>are knit *exactly* the same way as you would do on needles.
>
>--
>Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your
>work with excellence.

"Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to reply" wrote in message news:46947963$0$27208$ snipped-for-privacy@news.sonic.net...

All that's true. Although the word 'loom' in this context isn't as far as I know used in Britain* it does seem to be so common elsewhere that a one-woman crusade isn't gong to effect a change.

Lots of usage of English words - in Britain as well as USA :-) - irritates me but I can only change myself, not anyone else.

Mary

  • I don't know about commercial knitting

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