Spool knitting

For example, it can be wound in a spiral to produce a mat or rug or, if a larger spool with more nails is used, a sock or a hat could be made.

[4] The earliest recorded reference to the use of a frame for knitting is in 1535 in Strasbourg in a legal decision about the proper guild for sock knitters.

Spools sold as "knitting nancys" sometimes had a figure painted or printed on them, thus resembling a wooden doll.

Beginning in the latter half of the 20th century,[dubious – discuss] various small looms (usually plastic) using the same peg-knitting technique as knitting spools have been made.

[citation needed] If the thread is not wrapped around in a helix, but back-and-forth, leaving two pegs with a space between that no yarn crosses, a flat sheet can be made on a round frame.