Chapter 6 - Knitting and Lace

"Beginners make socks and caps, which are frequently unraveled later to save precious yarn. Skilled knitters may use multiple pairs of needles and several strands of yarn at once." (DLG, p124)

Table of Contents

  1. Knitting terminology
  2. General information about knitting
  3. Knitting patterns of Pernese regions
  4. Knitting stitches
  5. Crochet
  6. Lacemaking

Knitting Terminology

General Knitting Information

Knitting Patterns from Various Pernese Regions

By tradition, each Hold has its own exclusive knit pattern, and the style varies considerably between the Holds. Also by tradition, the patterns are knitted with plain yarn or dyed in each Hold's dominant colour.

Bay Head
Twisted diamond

Big Bay (Igen Sea Hold)
Cable alternating with double cable

Fort Sea Hold
Triple twisted rib

Greystones
Twisted columns, for the sarsenlike rock spurs that appear there.

Half Circle
Twisted V stitch, which looks like endless rows of half circles, alternating with cable stitch and bobbles.

High Reaches
Star-and-egg, (the old Fair Isle pattern from Earth) often brilliantly coloured, predominantly in the Hold's colours, tan and blue, but banded with bright gold and red dyes for greater visibility. The knitters in High Reaches practice the art of felting, a Craft they share with Southern Boll.

Hold Gar
Shell stitch

Ista
The need for warm garments is almost unknown here, but the seaholders have sweaters and warm trousers for faring into cold seas. The knit pattern traditional to Ista Sea Hold is the embossed or raised leaf, decoratively rendered in bright shades of orange and white, the Hold colours. This style isalso made in fine cool fabrics of cotton and sisal, and is popular for ladies' shawls.

Lewis Hold
Crossover rib

Misty Hold
Lattice cable

Nerat Hold
Scallop shell stitch

Rocky Hold
Star stitch

Ruatha and Ruatha River Hold
A very distinctive smocked rib pattern

Sattle
Chain and moss cable

Sea Cliff
Moire stitch

Tillek
Raised knit pattern combined with travelling cable and double moss stitch. Knitting is a much-practiced skill in Tillek during storms and bad weather. Mothers teach their fosterlings the skill from the time they can hold the needles, and gradually introduce them to stitches and patterns of greater complexity.

Valley
Reversed arrowhead cable, in deference to their hold badge

Knitting Stitches

Crochet

Lacemaking

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