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The jobs to sweater are performed through sweater irons that you/they can be, according to the type of job and the custom of the territory, two to an only point (to get flat workmanships to sew for producing sweaters or covered), four or five to double point (to get tubular workmanships as for gloves or stockings) or a motto circular, with two points and a flexible cable that it connects (with which is possible both to get flat fabrics and tubular) her, both techniques of sweater workmanship.
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Mainly the jobs to sweater heads of attire are realized but also covers and other domestic objects. The yarns mainly used for the jobs to sweater are the wool, the cotton, the flax, the silk and numerous artificial or synthetic fibers.
The sweater workmanship is an ancient art that realizes him with tools called irons.
The tools base of the job to sweater they are the irons that can be found in commerce in different materials whose choice depends on the personal taste: steel, aluminum, plastics and wood.
The length of the irons can have varied since 20 to the 80 centimeters according to the head that is wanted to manufacture. The irons for the job to sweater have a number that corresponds to their diameter, more they are thin, the number is low anymore. The measures can have varied since 2 to the 15 millimeters with a numeration that proceeds every half number. The number 2 are the thinnest, the irons more used for jobs in spun of average bigness they are the irons n. 5 and n. 6.
The irons can be divided in three categories:
- you fit with iron to a point, they serve for the pieces base and that they have to the opposite extremity a pomellino not to make to slip the sweaters
- you fit with iron to two points, to work heads in round, as gloves, stockings or necks, without having to make seams
- you fit with iron circular, to realize jobs of tubular form for some types of neck or for heads that don't ask for seams.
Besides the irons to have is necessary to course of hand other tools:
- a pair of scissors to cut the threads
- wool needles to sew with rounded off (now realized also in plastics and with a comfortable buttonhole to also insert spun big) point
- a meter to measure
- a crotchet hook to pick up the points and to perform the finishing touch.
They are also there optional and very useful accessories as:
- protect-points that serve for not making to go out the sweaters of the iron;
- revolution counter that serves for tener account of the number of the worked irons;
- you fit with iron auxiliary used for realizing intersections of sweaters;
- hat pins from "nanny" to hold back the sweaters in that they leave suspended;
- Portagomitoli, aprons handed job, baskets handed job to hold the clean and orderly job.
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