Ahoy, expert knitters and crocheters! Need a decision on something, please

I suspect you are advertising this obviously crocheted wrap ?

It is nice 😊

Absolutely not, aggie. I emailed the company (who sent me a sale catalogue for some reason) to tell them the scarf looks knitted to me. They replied and said the information from their supplier was that it is crocheted.

It still looks knitted to me so before I email them again I'd like a few more opinions on its knittedness or crochetedness.

Do join in if you'rs a knitter/crocheter 😊

It looks knitted to me as well.

I think a good proportion of sellers of women's clothes do not know what knitting and crochet look like and can't tell the difference.

I got in touch with another company a while back because they said their knitted jumper (which I bought) had "ribbing" cuffs and neck. The cuffs and neck were not knitted in ribbing but in garter stitch, which has completely different qualities from ribbing, which in turn is rather important in a neckline and cuffs.

Looking at the photo of just the scarf, I reckon it's knitted.

Thanks, maywalk.

The edging is very definitely knitted.

The centre looks crocheted, but I can't get a close enough look because of the way the site has set up the photos. could it be a hybrid pattern?

I wondered about the centre as well, dd, but was able to zoom in enough to see garter or reverse purl knitting in the centre.

Looks like it’s knitted, not crocheted, to me. Jolly expensive though, even at sale price! A Great Aunt knitted a similar pattern shawl in 2ply for my first born many years ago.

Scrap that - I saw there is another view that I could close in on. Yes, it is knitted.

It is a common mistake. My daughter often asks me to make crocheted things for her, when I can only knit. She just shrugs and says 'can't you just knit it instead?' 🙄

I know one thing for certain, I WOULD NOT pay that price for it.

Agreed on the excessive cost.

DD1, who is an expert knitter and crocheter said this:

"Definitely not crochet, although I think the words for knitting and crochet are the same in many languages so maybe it's a translation issue. Clothing manufacturers often call knitted lace or machine lace 'crochet' though because it's fashionable, but it's literally impossible to produce crochet other than by hand."

I think the body of the scarf might be crocheted, but the edging certainly looks knitted.

The main body of the scarf is crocheted spider lace and the edging looks like waistcoat stitch with chain stitches. It all looks like it's crocheted to me.

The part that is visible is knitted.

If you look carefully at the centre part of the shawl you should see that the stitch in the centre of a "spiders" is quite different from that in the photo below, which is spider lace crochet.

All knitted.

Photo not great as it's a screen shot but it is possible on my laptop to blow up the centre part of the shawl enough to see that it is definitely knitted. Lacy knit, yes, but knitted nonetheless.

Just seen the extra photo. Yes crochet there too.

The extra photo is crochet but it not a photo of the shawl. It's there to illustrate the difference.

Baggs

If you look carefully at the centre part of the shawl you should see that the stitch in the centre of a "spiders" is quite different from that in the photo below, which is spider lace crochet.

That part in the picture is crocheted but the part shown in the picture in the link looks knitted.

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If that's a different item (crocheted in singles, trebles and chains?) then I would say the scarf is knitted.

But I wouldn't claim to be an expert

an easy knit. Would cost about £30 to make