The jacquard son learned ( stranded knitting English) is probably the technique most rich in examples. It is also one that provides the earliest occurrences.
Indeed, the first occurrences of writing knitted turn out to be the first remains of knitting itself: fragments (picture from the book cons fabrics Egypt), tubes and socks found in Egypt including the oldest may date back to the ninth century. The texts in Arabic (the name of Allah, blessings and cons as above the word "victory") are kufic better suited for rendering knit cursive styles that post. Its use does not, by itself, to date them for sure. Besides, there are also pseudo-abstract designs inspired by the calligraphic Kufic calligraphy. If you want to reproduce some of the calligraphy, I refer you to Mamluke socks socks reconstructed by Nancy Bush in his book Folk Socks , or as more archaeologically correct in fact Anahita on its site, with its Allah socks. Also at Anahita, the socks with the inscription "barakah" and tube with the name of Allah . The above-knit cons inspired him, Chris Laning who made a bag (Ravelry link).
is also Arabic found on knitting the oldest found in Europe: the blessing "Barakat" on the cushion of the Infante Fernando de la Cerda. I refer you to ticket that I have dedicated three years ago already.
If you want to reproduce this cushion, Richard Rutt in providing grids in A History of Hand Knitting . See also simplified version of Susanna von Schweissguth. We find the grid "Barakat" provided by Rutt in a lot of knits, including the blessing socks Miriam Felton.
The first knitted Latin characters are religious: the monogram IHS on gloves Bishop (cons image above from the book by Richard Rutt), blessings, a New Testament verse (on the masterpiece journeyman hosier Silesia above), or profane wishes, dates and names. Indeed, in traditional knitting, it is quite usual to mark either the name of the person who knitted the work or the person to whom it is intended (see this pincushion of the V & A Museum ). You can add the wishes of long life for the person wearing the item (See below garters English from the book of Mil anys disseny in punt ).
There are lots of traditional jacquards that we can mark a name and a date. I only mention the Sanquhar-style gloves because the model found on the site tatao.net provides a complete alphabet (A). Often in traditional knitting, knit the text is discreet and is located at the bottom of a sweater or a glove. We can do even more discreet hiding in the hem as squarely on the sweater Elizabeth Zimmermann's EPS (here version Teklall ).
However, it can be very nice to display letters on the chest, they make sense or not, from elsewhere:
- a Latin motto on this sweater from The Panopticon,
- the alphabet and the name under the collar a round yoke sweater ,
- or around a sleeveless vest (the two Tracy3xl)
- even inspired an alphabet blocks on a childish Iowaknitguy sweater (Ravelry link ).
can also cover his socks on letters like these lovely socks child socks for tots crunch .
It is much rarer to find texts long enough on knitwear. The poetry mittens constitute an example rather mysterious, because we do not know much about these mittens covered with a poem whose multiple copies from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth were discovered in New England. Piecework magazine has devoted an article with grids in two issues: November-December 1995 and more recently January-February 2008. It is interesting to see customized versions (Ravelry link) that knitters have done with poems of their choice.
Even stranger, the letter, uh knitted in 1868 by an insane the President of the United States. She has inspired a contemporary textile artist John Krynicki ( see a video here), which has a range of texts knitted jacquard garter.
More recently, I have already spoken (and rightly so, since I knitted) socks Pearls of wisdom , also known as the "Pablo Neruda socks", created by Jean Newsted and published in the book Socks Socks Socks . There is a grid with the entire alphabet to personalize the socks by adding his name. (A)
Another Hispanic poet Antonio Machado, whose poem Caminante no hay camino inspired a scarf Knititch: to see on his blog (she shows here, she speaks there) or on Ravelry .
More sinister, the invocation of the three witches in Macbeth reproduced on long gloves by Nanette Blanchard Bewitching gloves.
More international and peaceful, even if it is not a long text, but the word "peace" in several languages:
- the Peace blanket of Knitting-and,
- the Peace jacket Bonnie Franz published in the webzine For the Love of Yarn .
This gives me a good transition to the next section where I review the scripts that you can find knitting.
The choice widens enormously when one considers a detail: the mesh jacquard son learned tend to be square instead of rectangular height as plain jersey (well, in theory! In practice, c is far from always true and it depends on the voltage of each). This allows you to use grids for cross stitch, where the alphabets and other samplers do not miss. Sometimes you have to adapt a little, because the form of a point and an embroidered knitted mesh can cause different deformations of the initial letter.
But there are also grids that were designed for knitting from the start. For Latin characters, there is a certain variety of fonts. While the jacquard son learned is indicated for letters rather thin, but there are all kinds, with or without serifs, very simple or convoluted. Some grids
very simple to start:
cap Kaleigh Kap (pdf) (A)
grid Knitting-and (A)
grid All Fiber Arts (A)
first grid Knit1 (A)
second grid Knit1 (a9)
Knit1 third grid (a)
If you love the most decorated letters, we can learn from Purl Union. I'd love her to provide grids for all the letters of her knitted version of the police Mantinia , superb! But for now, the only symbol that can knit, the ampersand is present in its very pretty cap Ampersand Hat (pdf).
However, she generously shares with us the alphabet she created for her Peruvian hat Chullo P (P Chullo click in the left margin of the blog to download pdf 3 parts). Knitting jacquard or jacquard son learned to cross-son. (A)
Just as the Kufic Arabic captures the Gothic letters make it very well in terms of Latin characters. We see the masterpiece companion hosier Silesian reproduced above. Too bad there are few recent examples, although I do not forget the leggings style "medieval punk" from parody.org: sandwich legwarmers. I do not know what scale it used, but I found one that might do the case: Needlepointers' Old Français alphabet. (Aa)
The generator Celtic alphabet, originally planned for the cross stitch is popular among knitters. (AA9)
And originally planned for crochet, cursive letters. (Aa)
Let now the Latin characters to look into other alphabets. For Arabic, we have seen that the Kufic style is one that lends itself best to knit (see previous examples). See also the pretty composition of Kufic Susannhill and the word "bird" in calligraphy cursive Dbennett. For Hebrew alphabet, I found several here. (Click on "basic", "stick" or "sm block").
For Greek alphabet, I found it .
And I'll end on one of my favorite discoveries in my research of knitted typography: a nineteenth cap found in Isfahan, which bears an inscription in Armenian (image from the book by Richard Rutt).
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