One of my loves is Twined Knitting. It is an old Swedish technique, the earliest extant piece that I have found has been dated to 1640. This is where you can help. Please email me if you have any documentation that can document this technique being used before 1600. I would love to begin teaching Twined Knitting classes at SCA events and entering my work in A&S competitions.  In the mean time, my search continues.

• Twined Knitted Mitten from the book Twined Knitting A Swedish Folkcraft Technique by Birgitta Dandanell and Ulla Danielsson.  The first picture is a view of the cuff turned up so that you can see the look of the stitch on the inside.  Many of the old garments that were used for heavy work were worn with the wrong side facing out so that the fabric would take longer to wear out. Update: I finished the pair and are on display at Woolbears, Mt. Holly, NJ because I will be teaching this class soon.  Click here for date and time.

• Here's the picture of the book that I used to make these mittens.  I highly recommend this book, but I think that it is out of print.  Pick one up if you can find one.  Click here to see some of my other book recommendations.

• I started another pair of mittens the beginning of the first one is shown on the right in the picture below, this time with more decorative crook stitches. Crook stitches are unique to Twined Knitting due to the nature of using both ends of the ball of yarn.

       On the left is a sample sock in a larger gauge but has great crook stitches down the top of the sock.