The techniques of the knitting and the crochet are for  Procida, still today, diffuse domestic pastimes much, and have been for along time used for the production of heads of apparel and linen for the house. In the technique of crochet the points they come knots to you for means of a thin auction, in kind of metal but also in bone or plastic, that it finishes with an extremity ricurva to shape of "crochet". Perhaps the jobs to "uncinetto" constitute in the island of Procida the most precious local typical handicraft. Little it is known of the origins of the "uncinetto", but that probably the same type of point came used anciently in order to knot cords and laces by hand. The tradition of the uncinetto nacque in Germany in the 1600's and is diffused in all Europe in the following centuries knowing great closing in the 1800's. The jobs to uncinetto can be realize to you also to machine, but the industrial applications of this technique are much rarer than those of the knitting. The uncinetto it concurs instead more meticulous handicraft jobs much and takes care of to you, than often they remember more the peak that the woven one. In Italy the production of heads to uncinetto is diffused in many regions: in Puglia, in Sardinia and Campania they are manifactured traditional covered in wool and beadspreads in cotton or linen, little centers and bordure, carpets and overtables.

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