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I remember seeing someone’s demo of using them for knitting. Absent any better explanation, this seems pretty reasonable to me. Example video: https://youtu.b

by hosh 3y ago

I remember seeing someone’s demo of using them for knitting. Absent any better explanation, this seems pretty reasonable to me. Example video: https://youtu.be/76AvV601yJ0?si=7qk7VWBHJnxubs1j https://youtu.be/76AvV601yJ0?si=7qk7VWBHJnxubs1j

q1w2 3y ago
I like the idea that there is some sort of thread manipulation going on here, but the videos using this for knitting don't require it to be a dodecahetdron as they only use one hole and five of the bulbs on the verteces. Unless there's a much more complex knit happening, this isn't the explanation. Maybe with multiple colors or something. Also, if it were used in this common way, it's more likely that there would have been many more made of wood and the device would have passed down from mother to daughter rather than having been lost.
mkehrt 3y ago
This is a theory that keeps coming up on the internet. However, roman dodecahedra predate knitting by almost a thousand years. The earliest known knitting was from the 11th century (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knitting#History_and_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knitting#History_and_culture), while the earliest dodecahedra are from the 2nd century (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dodecahedron#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dodecahedron#History)
- jazzyjackson 3y ago
  yarn rots
- NHQ 3y ago
  To doubt that knitting existed in Roman Times is preposterous. Thats like saying they could not weave baskets. Instead, your incredible hypothesis lends credence to recent studies by internet sleuths that indicate history as we are taught may have an extra 1000 years added simply because dates have been mistranslated or misconstrued to read a 1 (one) where there is indeed an I or J symbol, denoting years since the Christ; IOW that that 1999 is actually J999.

3 ms·

I remember seeing someone’s demo of using them for knitting. Absent any better explanation, this seems pretty reasonable to me. Example video: https://youtu.b

by hosh 3y ago

q1w2 3y ago
I like the idea that there is some sort of thread manipulation going on here, but the videos using this for knitting don't require it to be a dodecahetdron as they only use one hole and five of the bulbs on the verteces. Unless there's a much more complex knit happening, this isn't the explanation. Maybe with multiple colors or something. Also, if it were used in this common way, it's more likely that there would have been many more made of wood and the device would have passed down from mother to daughter rather than having been lost.
mkehrt 3y ago
This is a theory that keeps coming up on the internet. However, roman dodecahedra predate knitting by almost a thousand years. The earliest known knitting was from the 11th century (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knitting#History_and_culture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knitting#History_and_culture), while the earliest dodecahedra are from the 2nd century (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dodecahedron#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dodecahedron#History)
- jazzyjackson 3y ago
  yarn rots
- NHQ 3y ago
  To doubt that knitting existed in Roman Times is preposterous. Thats like saying they could not weave baskets. Instead, your incredible hypothesis lends credence to recent studies by internet sleuths that indicate history as we are taught may have an extra 1000 years added simply because dates have been mistranslated or misconstrued to read a 1 (one) where there is indeed an I or J symbol, denoting years since the Christ; IOW that that 1999 is actually J999.