Explains historical sweater knitting techniquefrom @theironsnail

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Two hundred years ago, the Norwegians invented a sweater that they said was better than a fur coat and better than a big heavy wool coat. The secret to the magic sweaters were all of these little dots. This specifically is a variation of the Lusikofte or the lice jackets, and these would be considered lice. Wool and fur coats are very very heavy and they're very very warm, but they're also very heavy. Did I say that? If you're trying to work on a mountain, they'll keep you warm, but you also can't really move around in them. They're not super breathable rank you will sweat a lot. Now for the most part, any old sweater would have fixed most of those issues except one. They were not warm enough. For some reason, I don't know why they just didn't wear two sweaters. I feel like that would good been easier, but still, tier thought of something else. Or they didn't think of it, but they employed this technique in a specific way. Pretend this is the inside of a sweater. Typically, when you're knitting, you use one strand of yarn. When you're knitting something like this though, you're using two strands of yarn at the same time. So when we flip this inside out, we have those white yarns that you saw, but those blue yarns are running over everything too, making a really spongy thick knit. That technique is called stranded knitting. You get a really thick, really warm sweater and these blue dots or snowflakes or reindeer or symbols serve as an anchor for that second strand of yarn to basically hold it down into the sweater no your hands and fingers don't get stuck in the yarn a lot.