I’m in the process of creating a database of knitting and crochet terms with translations to different languages.
I’m planning it in stages:
Stage 1: create a comprehensive (but not redundant) list of terms to translate
Stage 2: invite people to input their translations to different languages (starting with Spanish, and perhaps other European languages)
So for stage one, I’m asking people to help me refine my list. I want to include as many terms as possible, but at the same time not make it too long, so in phase 2 people won’t see it as an interminable chore.
Here’s what I have so far:
General terms:
blocking
stitch
front loop
back loop
increase
decrease
pattern
ribbing
skip
yarn over
slip
pom-pom
Maybe under knitting you could add [B]“sides” as in Right side row[/B], [B]Wrong side row[/B]. At first I had no idea what that meant but after I asked a question about sides, on here, everything made sense. From that point on I could make my own stitch designs and patterns, so that definition was key to my being able to knit.
You must define it for crochet carefully because crochet does have a right and wrong side just like knitting does. Some people don’t think crochet has right and wrong side but you will find patterns that refer to these sides and the Crochet Guild will tell you there is a right and wrong side.
Here’s a couple of links for English to Finnish knitting terms that I use
frequently. Might give you some further ideas of what you need to
have on your list and the translation to Finnish has already been done
if you want to include it
