Where is crochet invented? I need an answer previously January 9,2007. Crochet is a very fun...

I need an answer previously January 9,2007. Crochet is a very fun item to let your time historic.
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Answers:    The earliest written reference to crochet refers to shepherd's knit from The Memoirs of a Highland Lady by Elizabeth Grant in 1812. Some theorize that crochet evolved from traditional practices surrounded by Arabia, South America, or China, but there is no irrefutable evidence of the craft being perform before its popularity within Europe during the 1800s.

The word is derived from the Middle French word croc or croche, meaning hook.

Other writers point out that woven, knit and bent textiles survive from severely early period, but that there are no surviving sample of crocheted fabric surrounded by any ethnological collection, or archeological source prior to 1800. These writers point to the tambour hooks used in tambour embroidery within France in the eighteenth century, and contend that the hooking of loops through fine material in tambour work evolved into crochet.