🧶 Crochet 🧶
- a knotty habit
Crochet, craft that developed in the 19th century out
of a form of chain-stitch embroidery done with a hook instead of a
needle. In crochet work the hook is used, without a foundation material,
to make a texture of looped and interlinked chains of thread. In the
late 1840s crochet was introduced into Ireland as a famine relief
measure. In southern Ireland the industry centred in Cork, in northern
Ireland at Clones in County Monaghan. As it became more sophisticated,
crochet work approximated lace, antique laces such as gros point de
Venise, or Venetian raised lace, being successfully imitated.
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