The EVOLUTION of Crochet: Crochet History Timeline 1980-2022
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- Опубликовано: 18 июн 2024
- My mini crochet history documentary videos are pack full of information. Whether you’re looking to add a touch of texture to your summer wardrobe, or you’re simply staying up-to-date with this season’s hot trends, now’s the perfect time to plunge into the colorful style of crochet. The last time crochet saw this much popularity was in the 60s & ‘70s, when that generation renewed interest in crochet, particularly in the United States & UK with many funky designs. The history of crochet is still being written. Found out what going on in crochet right now.
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Timestamps
Intro 00:00
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1980s 02:00
1990s Decline 03:38
2000s 04:48
Yarn bombing 05:24
2010s 07:44
2020s 10:15
Crochet Fast Fashion 11:45 
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I'm really enjoying these videos. Sometimes I want to crochet while watching my favorite creator. I don't always want to learn a new pattern, I just want to listen. Your product reviews and information videos are filling my needs!
As a designer, I feel the same way, Kelly. I'm not always in the mood to make a new pattern. Sometimes I just want to learn about my craft.
me too
have a nice day
Amazing video! I'm new to the crochet community and really appreciated your presentation! At 9:35 the language is Portuguese and the title says: '''Crochet - Secrect Stitch (No song/talking)''.
Hit like before you even spoke. Knew you would be great!
Edit to say: I can only speak for myself. I grew up poor white, in the 50's/60's. In rural small town boonies. I learned to crochet in my Grama's beauty shop by watching little old ladies (in their 40's and 50's - i thought that was old then) crochet under the hair dryer. The town had 3 beauty shops. Grama's shop was considerably lower in price and people of color came to her. For me, this was treasure. I was young and wanted the "mod" things. The little white ladies taught me doilies and hot pads. The hispanic and black ladies taught me to use stitch patterns, to combine those colors, to make the things that were in the magazines that sat beside those old hair dryers. Media culture shut them out, we know that, but man, those were stitch artists.
Sadly all those precious ladies are passed on now but I still live near the same place. My 2 best friends are granddaughters of a couple of those ladies. And yes, they crochet too. Spent the day crocheting with one Wednesday. But neither of us can go as fast or fancy and her grandmother did.
Nope, they did not get what they deserved. But my teachers are remembered and talked about as incredibly talented artists.
Thank you so much cast iron skillet granny 🥰🤗❤️
@@LittlejohnsYarn I'm so danged old I can't take pictures like the rest of the world. As I've said before, I love your history videos (even the parts I lived.) I wish I could photograph and share some of those old vintage items but your research certainly does them justice!
I WISH I had been physically able to yarn bomb! I would have loved that. Best I did is crochet up around some of my pots I grow veggies in out on the driveway.
@@castironskilletgranny I loved hearing the story of how you began crocheting ❤️ is those memories that make me enjoy crochet even more. Sometimes it's not the act of crocheting itself. It's a time machine to that special place in your grandmother's beauty shop ❤️❤️❤️
@@castironskilletgranny Great information 👍 Thanks for sharing your story 🥰 ✨💋
During the "lull" decades I was still crocheting afghans and shawls for my friends, making blankets for shelter animals, and, of course, crocheting hats, scarves and mittens for the homeless😄😄 So glad crochet is "cool" again. Thanks so much for this video, Alysha 🥰🥰 ps: My mom taught me how to crochet. I'm a lefty but the only thing I can do with my right hand is crochet 😂😂
Trixie, that is so cool you hold your hook in your right hand! I tried that when I hurt my dominant hand.... It didn't work out 😂
My theory about why crochet dipped in popularity in the 90s is that us 90s kids grew up with afgans made out of the worst feeling acrylic yarn imaginable. I know that I was never interested until I discovered one day that there was nicer yarn available.
Also shout out to TL Yarncrafts for being the first channel that I ever saw that focused on Tunisian crochet.
Thanks for that nice bit of crochet history. I started to crochet in the late 1970s when expecting my first child, making a "granny-square" blanket for her - they weren't called granny squares then, as we weren't grannys... yet. But that blanket is now part of my grandson's bedding. Back then I learned the craft from some older hippy friends but after that first daughter was born, I didn't crochet again until the end of 2022. The reason was because I saw my youngest (20 something) daughter get all excited about a rather boring crochet tote bag she saw on another young woman on the street. That's when I learned that crochet was BACK. I decided to relearn the craft as I knew I could make a bag for my daughter that was a lot more interesting and individualized then the one we saw on the street.. I'm still working on it and RUclips videos have been providing brilliant refresher courses.
I started crocheting back when I was 12 but didn't continue due to lack of sources like patterns and others. Fast forward to 20 years, in 2018, I restarted doing crochet. now I am running a small crochet business in the Philippines - and I am not the only one
That is so amazing and congratulations on your business Mary ❤️❤️❤️
I lived through the crochet craze of the 70's and actually learned crochet then. Just as you said though, as it fell out of fashion, I stopped. People would make fun of me because it was considered old fashioned. I picked it back up again just over a year ago. So much has changed! The yarn, the patterns, the internet! RUclips has been a major influence on my crochet journey and have a handful of RUclipsrs I follow and appreciate so much! You included. I appreciate you. These crochet education videos are amazing!
Jill i'm so happy you are enjoying my newer videos. I wonder if this is just a repeat of history. Will crochet decline by 2030?
@@LittlejohnsYarn sadly, it very well may. I'm hoping my grands will want to pick it up after they get through their teen years. Lol!
@@jillpaxton2422 my daughter is 21 and she still doesn't want to learn how to crochet 😞
@@LittlejohnsYarn well damn! Haha!
I'm really loving these history of crochet videos, it's so cool seeing how the craft has progressed over time and I really like how you compose your videos.
Thank you 😊
I learned to crochet in the 90s from my mom who also taught her girl scout troop the craft. Now I'm older and have adult money for yarn. I am taking this new interest in crochet and doing a few craft fairs this year which will be a new and fun adventure!
I think crochet is currently associated with Grandmothers because they are/were the ones who taught their grandchildren the craft, and had more free time to do it. They also did crochet in their youth for their hope chests in order to beautify their homemade linens. My grandmother, born in the 1890s, taught me, and I taught my own grandchildren.
Printed patterns have been available for a much shorter time than the craft has been popular. I think this is because in the past people shared patterns they had, or had inherited, or had created themselves with one another. In the same way that people used to copy music (one person would buy the piece and friends would copy it - hence the name 'copybook'), people copied patterns for things like dresses, crocheted purses, collars, antimacassars, etc.
The first garment I made was from the only pattern I happened to find - a mesh shawl. It was years before I even found another pattern (this was the late 70s).The choice of patterns and yarn is based on the market. I'm old enough to have seen the rise and fall and rise (and possibly another fall upcoming) of the small yarn shop. These things are often cyclical and happen in many different markets and I imagine that niche markets (like yarn) are much more volatile than larger ones (like food).
I don't think it makes sense to bring race into this. I have never cared nor even thought about the color of a yarn designer or a pattern designer, or a RUclipsr. I care about quality. I care about learning new techniques (I discovered and learned Tunisian from TL Yarn Crafts). I care about finding the thing I am looking for. I follow patterns from Russian and Portuguese designers who have no english subtitles. I subscribe to several channels whose creators are men. None of the trending diversity stuff matters. What matters is taste, quality, skill.
The one extraneous thing I do care about is unfair government interference in the market, so I prefer to not buy yarn or supplies made in China.
Thank you for this video. It is interesting to think about how domestic crafts grow and change, ebb and flow through our culture. I have a small book of knitting and crochet patterns that is from the early 1900s. The only crochet pattern is filet and the patterns are for collars, cuffs, purses, etc. How they are written is fascinating. You absolutely have to know what you are doing, for most of the process is assumed and the details are few.
Thanks for this additional information, very interesting 👍🤩💋
I'm with you on the race thing. The problem I have with the whole "we need diversity" thing is that it comes across like it's not valid without every nationality being equally represented. It's very limiting, and a narrow mindset.
As a woman who makes it a priority to dress modestly, it is also very troubling when a lot of these diverse creators end up creating things that are highly immodest and overtly sexualized. I would watch more content from diverse cultures if it wasn't so skimpy. It has nothing to do with their nationality, it has everything to do with their content.
Fascinating history. I'm always impressed by your thorough research and fabulous presentation. Thank you!
Thank you so much Laura ❤️❤️
I love these videos! It’s so interesting how much I can learn about crochet from them! Thank you for taking the time to do the research it takes to make them. Much Love and blessings ❤️
Thank you, Karen. I'm learning alot while creating them. I never realize that there is soooo much more to crochet
That language was Portuguese, and you saw them(Brazil)mainstreaming first, then after you saw Spanish and Jamaican and Americans of color. And that’s when crochet got really interesting. For me
Very good video, I started crocheting around 2015 after I quit my job o 20 years.
Thanks for putting all this in perspective.
Loved this video, learned to crochet at age 12 then didn’t expand to baby clothes until 1985 due to being broke, didn’t pick it up again until about 8 years ago-and a woman of my generation and I recently commented on the fact that yes crochet has changed immensely in the last 40 years and we both wanted to know more about that change-now I do Tks to ur incredibly informative vid and I will share ur video with her! Love ur channel! Ty
Really enjoyed the look down memory lane. Learned to crochet from my aunt when I was 8 years old. Still have the book she gave me.
One last comment, you said Wal-mart but the image was from TARGET.
I Love how You GIVE Information About THIS CRAFT!! Thanks So Much!
You're welcome Margaret 🙂
Thank you so much for making this video!!!!! The two biggest passions of mine are history and crafting. Love, love, love this so much!!!
You are so welcome!
I just started learning how to crochet in September 2021… I’m 50!! I’ve always wanted to learn. So I came to RUclips to learn because as much s as I love to read, I’m a visual learner. The first stitch I learned was the Tunisian stitch, taught by Toni from TL Yarn Crafts. If you aren’t already following her, run to her channel now. She is an amazing crochet teacher!!!! Love her videos and her creations. I credit her for my instant obsession with crocheting 😁👍🏼🧶
OMG, I actually made that 1980s sweater in the thumbnail. I wore it for many years. Always got compliments on it too.
If it weren't for RUclips tutorials, I don't know if I'd have learned to crochet! I am a moving-visual learner. It was just a matter of finding the maker who I connected with, my fav's being; Little John, Bag-o- Day, Sirin's Crochet, Hooked by Robin. KnitCro and Emma P. You ladies are my crochet Goddesses! My mother and sister can sew but neither one could learn how to crochet, so it's a lil point of bragging pride for me because I never thought I could possibly learn ANY kind of sewing/fiber art. I did begin over the pandemic and only wish I would've known earlier how much it calms me and how much enjoyment and pride I feel when I make something. Yes, it comes with its frustrations, but doesn't anything you feel passionate about? Thank you LJ for bringing info to the craft too, because the only thing I gobble up more than yarn is INFO! You're awesome!!!
The disappearance of yarn and craft stores was surprising to me. At that time I was into latch hook. It was disappointing to struggle to find pre-cut yarn. So I stopped.
In my new neighborhood, there is a local independent yarn store three blocks from my home. They are returning with beautiful yarns made from amazing natural materials.
I would like to see a video about what happened to stores like Yarn Mart. The yarns were plentiful and affordable. There were supplies for needlepoint, embroidery, latch hook, knitting, crocheting, etc.
Thank you for sharing informative videos. I enjoyed the trip down memory lane with the fashion photos.
You're welcome. During the video on yarn stores would be interesting
I'm a new crocheter and love to learn more. I think yarn cost is more affordable in my country (thank God for that). For example 25g Mohair yarn cost $1.2, 50g Milk Cotton & 100g of 100% cotton yarn cost less than $1.
Those are amazing prices 👀👀
Love these videos you do on crochet history! It’s awesome learning so much about our craft. Thank you for doing these!
You're welcome ☺️
I absolutely love your content. Thank you!!
Keep up the good work! Thank you for these informative videos. RUclips has been a real asset not only when it comes to getting exposure to all types of crochet techniques but also exposure to crocheters of various backgrounds and nationalities/cultures. I truly enjoy watching and learning what others are crocheting. Diversity reflected in crochet is a great thing and stitches us even closer together.
Thank you so much Rhonda ☺️ I'm glad you enjoying these newer videos ❤️
I love these videos so much. Another brilliant video to post onto my indie yarn site. When people comment on buying it cheaper in a big box store or online already made I refer to your videos on the crochet fast fashion industry. You are a gem!
Thanks for sharing, Alyssa❤️
I've been crocheting for a while, now. And, I notice that when you look/follow other crocheters from around the world there are so many different design/styles. I just started following many Asia artist for their crisp lines and structures for their crochet projects - bags and jackets, mainly. Though, I do miss the ones that inspired me 6 (+/-) years ago - but, I do understand burnout all to well...
Thank you so much for your service to the crochet community. Your research is priceless.
Thank you Sandra 🙂
Thank you for this! Loving your educational content -keep on pushing stuff like this out. Love you !
Thank you ❤️
Blessed love, I like doing crochet so these videos up lift me ,I stay doing crochet 1990,got the teaching from my grand ma .🇦🇬
The first video ever uploaded says "Crochet Stitch - No secret - No audio". It's not Spanish, it's actually Portuguese, probably the video is from Brazil. Crochet is super popular here, even more than knitting (much more than knitting, I daresay). Brazilian crochet garment patterns are super fancy, I particularly like them more than the English language patterns I've seen (the contrary is true for knitting patterns). We also have a lot of rugs and home decor patterns in general here, but almost no blanket patterns. Probably this all has to do with the climate, as crochet may be better for producing Summer clothing and also we have much more access to great cotton than to wool.
Been thru, seen and heard a lot of this. Great you shared it so others learn it.
Thank you so much for all your efforts in giving us such a wonderful historical fun fact of crocheting
Hello, thanks for these informative videos and yes I'd like 👍🏾 too know more about the small yarn shops topic, you really make crocheting a good craft/ business a great option, this is the side I am enjoying the most because I like too know the origin of things, keep doing what you doing 😊
Thank you Kingdom Arts❤️ Its been fun researching.
Another great informational/historical video about crochet. Keep them coming :) Love them!
Thank you
I love these videos so much!💗
Hey, the first YT crochet video is from a Brazilian channel - so it would be in Portuguese, not Spanish 😉
The translation of the title is "secret stitch - no audio". But I have no idea how this stich would be called in English... 😅
Roberta, thank you so much. I need all the help I can get, lol
Loved watching this as I crocheted! I learned to crochet from RUclips videos, but I learned so much when I joined a crochet group while I lived in Alabama. The ladies there got me into the knitting group, and then I started a tatting group. The groups were very diverse with different ages, races, and genders. Of course, then the pandemic started; then I moved states. 😞 With life opening up again, I'll be looking for another local stitching community. Thanks for bringing the community together!
You are so lucky to have such amazing groups near you! I found out the only people like are crocheters, lol. Yet there's no groups near me 😭
@@LittlejohnsYarn I intend on making one if I can't find one. We would meet in the local library once a week. I ended up in that library three or more times a week. 😆
I appreciate your educational tutorials !
Keep up the great work !👍
Thank you, will do!
Loved this so so much! You are so good at this👏👏
Thank you 😊😊💕
I'm loving these videos. Keep up the great work.
Thank you Sherri
Love the informational video! Thank you !
Glad it was helpful!
Love your videos always so much information. Thank You. ♥️🧶
Thank you so much Maria❤️
You’re amazing! I have been watching you since I taught myself :)
Thank you!. I"m always amazed by the self-taught. That is amazing
Enjoy the videos. Always something to learn.
Thank you
The video you mentioned it's not in Spanish it's Portuguese. Please continue doing this type of video I love your work!!
This is such an awesome video, Alysha! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you Karen, while editing I realized I video recording 1sec of your Instagram post
@@LittlejohnsYarn lol! Yaaaassss! 🙌🏽Airtime!😂💕💕💕
Good Good job thanks for your tutorials they’re very interesting
It’s good to learn all we can about the craft we love
Thank you ❤️
Thanks for sharing
You're welcome ☺️
Awesome job! I need more 🥰🧶
Thank you❤️ I call this my bingeable playlist😎 ruclips.net/p/PLkhTdPX1lRM4UJmfVMCW-eBsWNP5Tmboc
Thanks for interesting information...
You're welcome ☺️
you should do a video on famous yarn bombs! love your content- so hilarious
That sound like a good video!!
I love these videos very informative🥰
I'm so glad!
i just started crocheting and i love these history videos!!! i would be really interested if you did a video on how the internet affected small yarn shops. it's very hard to find independent locally-owned stores for much of anything in my area, and i'd be interested to learn about the cultural shift caused by these small local stores closing. how different was the community built there different from the larger communities created on the internet, really??? i'm an older gen z so i didn't really get to experience shopping before internet and big box stores became the norm haha
Nice video it was very good enjoyed it so much ty
Glad you enjoyed it
Jayda in stitches is one of my favorites
That yarn bomb in NYC by London Kaye was on the side of an old lady’s house (the home owner) without her consent, that’s what the outcry was about. Disrespect. Thanks for this information.
Enjoyed
Awesome 👍🏾❤️🙏🏽🤗🌻
Nicely done. Very informative. I'm glad someone is finding this information and pass it on. Sometimes I feel like I'm operating in a bubble unaware of how we affect the trends or how trends affect us as smaller creators. Fast Fashion should not steal from creators anymore than a burglar should steal from a private home. Keep spreading the news and maybe someday fair trade will be everywhere.
Thank you so much Andrea 🥰
@@LittlejohnsYarn You're welcome 😊.
Crochet for everyone!
Loved the part about gentrification and yarn bombing. Would be interested in a video about small yarn shops, like you mentioned!
Great again, Thanks 🤩 Love learning from You 📚 Love Your hairstyles 😎 Awesome comments info too 👍✨🥂💋 🧶 😘
Thank you Jen❤️
Keep these videos coming.
Thank you ❤️
I only can say Thak you so mucht
Another excellent video. You are so funny.
Thank you 😁
Aaaahhhhhhhhh, the 80s!!!! What a fun childhood! Big hair (bidnehzz in the from, party in the back!! Lol...you 80s kids will get the reference, lol!!), big clothes, bold prints, bold colors, big/great rock ballads....the peak of rock/country/soul music!! Electronic sounds!! Computers in the schools!!! (Now, everything has the same sound). Etc!! Great times! Am I right??!!………to all you 80s kids??!!!!
Thank you for doing thes fun-facts/historic8 info. It’s so fun to learn crochet history.
🤣🤣🤣 I like the mullet reference. It's amazing how far tech & style has come in such a short time.
At abt 9:03 in ur video there is a triangular shawlette in a goldish color-can u, by any chance tell me where I can find or buy that pattern?
💞💞💞💞💞 very informative
Thank you so much Chandra❤️
Most of my crotchet memories was of the decline in fashion of the 1970’s. My mother made me a pink pussy hat. I decided to pick the craft up myself this year.
ok i can kinda look over the "pooosay hats being a 'monumental' moment in crochet history" (it DID almost ruin cat hats) but labeling Motley Crue, a HAIR band as "Punk Rock"??? Punk Rock and hair bands are completely different genres.
Tuned in🍿🍿🧶🥰❤
Thank you!!!
💫 and mullets 💫
Thank you. You are a great narrator. How about Tejiendo Perú. Love yor channel.
Thank you so much 🥰
9:29 that video is in Portuguese. the title says crochet - secret point - without audio
At the 9:35 mark, I’m pretty sure that’s actually Portuguese. Using google translate it says something like crochet, secret point (???) without audio.
I would run into Black ladies back in the 90's who were crocheters. At the Septa station on the way to work.
I am an artist and an avid crocheter. Yarn bombing is awesome, as long as it does not cover up beautiful things, and in my opinion anything that is nature made is beautiful. Yarn on trees is a big no no for me. However yarn on wire fences, or dilapidated buildings, or junk, or anything that is an eye sore in the environment screams for a yarn bomb. Yarn bombers should consider the material they are using when planning a yarn bomb. How much plastic is in the yarn and how would it affect the environment should it get worn out by the elements? I am not an environmentalist, but I do care about pollution and specifically about water pollution. Micro plastics are everywhere and we do not need to add more to the environment with more plastic yarn.
There's creative grandma and Settas Place tjeve been crocheting for years
O.G. Pioneers!
💜💛💜
Thank you Denise
It says... Secret point
Thank you ❤️
@@LittlejohnsYarn You are welcome fellow crochet sista!❤️
That’s actually portugués 😅 and it say without audio 👌🏽
At 9.40: That is not Spanish. I think it's Brazilian Portuguese...
Hi
Hey Zoey
you forgot tom daley the olypmics aleth,who crochet
He is one of my Favs! I have him on my celebs who crochet vid. ruclips.net/video/K0X352AV-4Y/видео.html
That video is in Portuguese. Not Spanish.
let me guess your going to talk about wine again
Ms, thats not spanoosh thats Portuguese 😂
That is not a spanish channel, because I speak spanish.
I wonder what language it is? I'm going to have to got to google translate & find out
@@LittlejohnsYarn I don’t understand it either, sometimes when I search tutorials that pops up and I dont know what they says 🤷🏻♀️ but anyways you make a really nice video sorry for not leave comments before. 🌹
it looks like Spanish because it's in Portuguese (I would even guess it's probably Brazilian Portuguese)!
The title translates to something like "Crochet - Secret Stitch - no audio".
i translated this stitch literally, but it probably has another name in english
edit: I just made a quick image search on Pinterest and it looks like this technique is called "Solomon knot stitch". So the correct translation would be *"Crochet - Solomon Knot Stitch - No Audio"*
@@fravs22 not spanish I speak spanish trust me.
@@LittlejohnsYarn like Cindy said it isn't spanish, it's portuguese and the title translates to "crochet-Solomon's knot- no audio". I only speak Spanish and a bit of Galician (one of the Spanish co-oficial language) and I was a bit confused because in Galician 'segredo' means secret so the literal translation would be 'secret stitch' so I was curious and I googled it.
PS: I love this kind of informative videos, I find them super interesting 😄
I hate yarn bombing! Waste of yarn and is really bad for the environment. It reminds me of graffiti and I dislike it as much as graffiti.
Backing up what another person said about the diversity thing, but adding onto it.
The problem I have with the whole "we need diversity" thing is that it comes across like it's not valid without every nationality being equally represented. It's very limiting, and a narrow mindset. I don't watch a lot of crocheters in general as I often get irritated by the sounds of their voice, background noises, or even word choice, and that goes for all nationalities. It's also disingenuous as the demand for diversity means that whole groups of people who may not have crochet as their art form are now being demanded to add it to their skill set to please other people. Likewise, people who may be sensitive to the way other people sound are now being told that their ability to enjoy a video doesn't matter because they HAVE to have equal nationality representation.
As a woman who makes it a priority to dress modestly, it is also very troubling when a lot of these diverse creators end up creating things that are highly immodest and overtly sexualized, with lewd comments to boot. I would watch more content from different creators if it wasn't so skimpy, and that even includes other fair skinned people. I find that I even get distracted from the crochet content by how much skin is showing. I should not feel like I am being unfair by choosing not to watch content from people who's style of dress bothers me.
It has nothing to do with their nationality, it has everything to do with their content and how it appeals to me as a fellow crocheter.