Crochet art, has revolutionized the concept that people used to have about woven fabrics. Thanks to the claim of the world of fashion, woven garments are now the boom in the top10 most prominent and demanded trends this year. This confirms that fashion always repeats itself, despite believing that the woven clothes were gone. Today this concept has been completely canceled since great designers lovers of the fabric have evolved the most prestigious fashion runways wearing clothes made of crochet thread; it is used by celebrities such as the controversial Kardashians Clan.
It is said that this type of fabric, originated from the traditional Arabic, Chinese or South American practices. However, this has not been proven. It was in the XVI century when in Europe this technique became popular, becoming a rich cottage industry with greater relevance in Ireland and France, due to damage to the livelihoods of these communities because of the war.
Many lovers of the needle art have used empirical techniques for making beautiful woven garments; becoming a real crochet master. If you want to learn this exciting technique of this fabric, below we explain step by step process of elaboration.
In the first step, and after selecting the thread color of your preference, begin the fabric making a knot in the end of the thread and then link it to the crochet with the needle; forming a kind of chain stitch as a base of the fabric, to later make the different types of points: high point and low point; which are made in the following manner:
- In the first point (high), The needle is used to surround the thread in a circular manner and introduce it into the chain stitch point –the base that was done earlier-, remaining three points in the needle; then another loop is performed through two points of the crochet so that only these remain and finally passing the needle between them.
- For the low point, the crochet is passed through the corresponding point-already made in the chain stitch -; taking thread with a loop and passing it just to the point that was already woven, leaving two points in the thread. In the next step, the strand of crochet is taken with a loop and after that the needle is passed through the two points that already were in the crochet thread.
These points are two different crochet weaving techniques and you can start to practice, choosing the one that seems easier to you. In this way you will become a complete crochet master.
It is so gorgeous but it seems really difficult. I guess I’m not handy with crochet.