Comment on it's obviously a thingamajig
DrSoap@lemmy.world 4 days agoI don’t know. I knit a lot. I loom knit too by hand. There are methods for making knitted cords that use nails hammered into a circular wood.
This really looks like it’s meant to make gloves and each hole is dedicated to a different finger and a center for sleeves. Maybe it was combined with weaving and there is rope or a wooden hook that we wouldn’t see today.
I was going to 3D print one to experiment and see if I could work something out myself.
The fact that there are solid ones really throws me off though. I was dead convinced this was a knitting/weaving tool.
DrSoap@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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For reference, these are widely available now, but aren’t the most popular item. A multi sided one with multiple holes might do different sized cords. Possibly a mesh. Maybe gloves. I don’t know.
There is a YouTube channel I watch where this lady gets so creative with these looms that she’s managed to make just about anything, so if it was meant for knitting/weaving of some sort, you really could use it to make just about anything.
They come in many different shapes with different sized spokes and different spacing. It is faster than traditional knitting in my opinion, but harder to get complicated colorwork/patterns.