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Purl meaning
A particular stitch in knitting in which the working yarn is pulled through an existing stitch from front to back. | The edge of lace trimmed with loops. | An embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band.
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For each of the four above items that don’t currently work with purl, the way to make them work is to identify a way to have a controlled namespace for that product type.
What is needed for the CVE.org database to be able to support purl lookups?
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Checkerboard patterns ( basketweave ) are also possible, the smallest of which is known as seed/moss stitch: the stitches alternate between knit and purl in every wale and along every row.
Conversely, rows of purl stitches tend to form an embossed ridge relative to a row of knit stitches.
Different combinations of knit and purl stitches, along with more advanced techniques, generate fabrics of considerably variable consistency, from gauzy to very dense, from highly stretchy to relatively stiff, from flat to tightly curled, and so on.
Each stitch in slip stitch crochet is formed the same way as a knit or purl stitch which is then bound off.
In the knit stitch on the left, the next (red) loop passes through the previous (yellow) loop from below, whereas in the purl stitch (right), the next stitch enters from above.
In the simplest knitted fabrics, all the stitches are knit or purl; this is known as a garter stitch.
Right- and left-plaited stitches seeAlso Both knit and purl stitches may be twisted: usually once if at all, but sometimes twice and (very rarely) thrice.
The two stitches are related in that a knit stitch seen from one side of the fabric appears as a purl stitch on the other side.
The two types of stitches have a different visual effect; the knit stitches look like "V"'s stacked vertically, whereas the purl stitches look like a wavy horizontal line across the fabric.
Thus, a knit stitch on one side of the fabric appears as a purl stitch on the other, and vice versa.
Thus, the purl wales in ribbing tend to be invisible, since the neighboring knit wales come forward.
Wales of purl stitches have a tendency to recede, whereas those of knit stitches tend to come forward.
Within limits, an arbitrary number of twists may be added to new stitches, whether they be knit or purl.