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Daily Yarn Fact

Early needles were made with ivory, bone, and tortoise shell

These early needles were designed to be strong and pointed to facilitate knitting, but used materials that we might think are very strange, truly part of everything you didn’t know about knitting. Today’s needles can be made with a huge range of materials, from plastic, to aluminium, to bamboo, to beautifully coloured wood.

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