Araucania Ranco sock - a vibrant variegated sock yarn, that has a mottled effect when knitted up.
photos from the blog: http://www.aplaciddutchman.typepad.com/ of the handmade blocking rack that her father MADE for her…I’m agog (and jealous)
It looks like a gorgeous shawl, but the thought of blocking it makes me want to cry.
ER-MAH-FUCKING-GERD, you guys. TINY CROCHET TOTORO.
Click through and check out the rest of her Etsy shop. Mind = BLOWN
Sock
Place of origin:Egypt
Date: 050-220 AD
Materials and Techniques: Wool, single-needle knitted
Gallery note: Before the technique of knitting with two needles evolved, textiles with a very similar structure and texture were created by a technique known as ‘single-needle knitting’. This sock, made in this method, was intended to be worn with sandals, as the big toe is shaped separately from the other toes. It was excavated from Christian burial grounds of the late Roman period, found in the present-day city of al-Bahnasa in Egypt.
This used yarn threaded through the eye of a sewing needle worked in the round through a series of loops. It was much more laborious and slower than knitting with two needles, as the yarn could only be worked in short lengths. Extra pieces of yarn had to be spliced on as the ‘knitting’ progressed.
