purls

You can make corrugated ribbing in any configuration you might normally use for ribbing, but the difference is that the knit columns are one color and the purls are another.

About.com Knitting 2009

You can make corrugated ribbing in any configuration you might normally use for ribbing, but the difference is that the knit columns are one color and the purls are another.

About.com Knitting 2009

These "purls" were occasioned either by very small fish passing through the meshes, or else by large ones who came up, and touching the net with their snout, had taken the alarm and beat a retreat back to the pools whence they had come.

The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850

"purls," when horses have "come down" with me out hunting; and on one occasion in China, when a horse which I mounted for the first time, reared and came over.

The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. Alice M. Hayes 1873

DJ O'BoyleBrighton, East Sussex• There are often purls of wisdom on the letters page, but recent correspondence Letters, 7 March is clearly from knitwits.

Letter: Proportionate play 2011

You just knit along, change colors when you feel like it, mixing purls and knits in any combination.

A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011

She dreams that one day we will be able to fashion a language from the sounds of knits and purls.

Laure Drogoul’s Amplified Knitting Orchestra 2009

You just knit along, change colors when you feel like it, mixing purls and knits in any combination.

A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011

You just knit along, change colors when you feel like it, mixing purls and knits in any combination.

A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011

The women do their purls and double loops and concentrate on the yarn, and somewhere in between that, they talk.

At District's N Street Village, a chance for women to knit a lifeline to others 2010