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  2. Cowichan knitting - Wikipedia

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    The teaching of patterned sweater knitting is generally attributed to a settler from the Shetland Islands, Jerimina Colvin. [4] Mrs. Colvin settled in Cowichan Station in 1885, raised sheep, and hand-spun and dyed her own wool. She probably began to teach knitting by the 1890s, and added patterns as she learned them from other Scottish settlers ...

  3. Capote (garment) - Wikipedia

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    The River Road by Cornelius Krieghoff, 1855 (Three habitants wearing capotes). A capote (French:) or capot (French:) is a long wrap-style wool coat with a hood.. From the early days of the North American fur trade, both indigenous peoples and European Canadian settlers fashioned wool blankets into "capotes" as a means of coping with harsh winters. [1]

  4. Cable knitting - Wikipedia

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    A vast variety of cable patterns can be invented by changing the number of cables, the separations of their center lines, the amplitudes of their waves (i.e., how far they wander from their center line), the shape of the waves (e.g., sinusoidal versus triangular), and the relative position of the crests and troughs of each wave (e.g., one wave ...

  5. Crochet - Wikipedia

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    Men, women, children joined a co-operative in order to crochet and produce products to help with famine relief during the Great Irish Famine. Schools to teach crocheting were started. Teachers were trained and sent across Ireland to teach this craft. When the Irish immigrated to the Americas, they were able to take with them crocheting. [21]

  6. Sweater - Wikipedia

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    One from the Graham Leggate collection, a Norwegian selburose design. A sweater (North American English) or pullover, also called a jersey or jumper (British English, Hiberno-English and Australian English), [1] is a piece of clothing, typically with long sleeves, made of knitted or crocheted material that covers the upper part of the body.

  7. Cape - Wikipedia

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    A shoulder cape is thus sometimes called a "capelet". The fashion cape does not cover the front to any appreciable degree. The fashion cape does not cover the front to any appreciable degree. In raingear, a cape is usually a long and roomy protective garment worn to keep one dry in the rain.

  8. Inverness cape - Wikipedia

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    An Inverness cape worn with Highland dress, 2007 Tacoma Highland Games. Even though a wide variety of coats, overcoats, and rain gear are worn with Highland dress to deal with inclement weather, the Inverness cape has come to be almost universally adopted for rainy weather by pipe bands the world over, and many other kilt wearers also find it to be the preferable garment for such conditions.

  9. Tippet - Wikipedia

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    A red tippet is also worn in some Anglican dioceses by commissioned lay workers. Commissioned evangelists of the Church Army are presented with a cherry red type tippet of the capelet or collar shape rather than a scarf, although some replace this with a scarf form of the tippet, retaining the distinctive red colour.