@article{Malcom-Davies_2019, title={Knitting comes of age: the development of a scientific approach to the study of knitwork}, volume={31}, url={https://conservarpatrimonio.pt/article/view/22043}, DOI={10.14568/cp2018034}, abstractNote={<p>Knitting has received scant attention in the scientific study of textiles despite its continued popularity as a handicraft. As a result, relatively little is published about the evidence for early knitting. It is frequently the victim of mistaken identity: items made by needle binding are often described as knitted; and many more items which are knitted remain unidentified as such. A draft protocol inspired by the Centre International d’Étude des Textiles Anciens’ system for the analysis of woven textiles has been developed as part of a project to investigate Knitting in Early Modern Europe (KEME). A lack of unambiguous terminology was also identified as a challenge to the scholarly scrutiny of knitting’s origins. The evolution of a protocol and terminology and their application to a collection of knitted caps from the sixteenth century (now published online) is reported here.</p> <h2> </h2> <p>Received: 2018-7-31<br>Revised: 2018-12-19<br>Accepted: 2019-1-15<br>Online: 2019-2-25<br>Publication: 2019-4-30</p>}, journal={Conservar Património}, author={Malcom-Davies, Jane}, year={2019}, month={Apr.}, pages={133–143} }