Re: [lojban-beginners] Knitting

[Michael Turniansky <mturniansky@gmail.com>]

  I am not a knitter (or is that I am knot a nitter?), but I shall try
to address your questions.

On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Alex Rozenshteyn <rpglover64@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry for the multiple emails in a short span of time, but when I have
> lojban questions, they tend to come in bursts.
>
> {nivji} is the word for the act of knitting; e.g. {mi mo'u nivji lo
> nivycreka} for "I finished knitting a sweater." (or will finish, or once
> long ago finished, etc.)
>
> But what word describes a knitting needle?  Is it a {nivji jesni}?  In
> Russian, there is a unique root for "knitting needle" that has nothing to do
> with "needle" (although crocheting is "knitting with a hook")?
>
  If you don't want to use nivji jesni (nivjesni), I don't think
anyone would have a hard time understanding nivji tutci (nivytci) or
even nivji grana (nivga'a)

> How should "Right side" and "Wrong side" be described?  Right side refers to
> the side of the material that is intended to be seen when the {selnivji} is
> complete.  Wrong side refers to the side which is not intended to be seen.
> Double-knitted projects [can be said to] have two right sides and no wrong
> side.

selvi'a sefta and tolselvi'a sefta, it would seem to me.

> What words are used to mean "knit" and "purl" in the sense of the two
> stitches?  In Russian they're called (loosely translated, of course) "face
> side thingy" and "wrong side thingy"
>

Here my ignorance of knitting will fail me, but what do you thing of
cranivji and rixnivji?


> What word should be used to describe the little loops that form over a
> needle?  In English they're also called stitches (and so are the
> arrangements of knit/purl that form patterns, with such names as
> stockinette, garter, ribbing, seed/moss; granted, Russian only has a name
> for "ribbing"), but in Russian they're called loops.

clupa seems fine.

  --gejyspa

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