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purl in the PONS Dictionary

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purl stitch
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If the former, the stitch is denoted as a knit stitch or a plain stitch; if the latter, as a purl stitch.
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Thus, 1x1 ribbing has one knit stitch, followed by one purl stitch, followed by one knit stitch, and so on.
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A knit stitch is flat, while a purl stitch is raised.
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These specifications are not to be confused with the reverse stitch known as a purl in knitting.
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Ribbing is notated by (number of knit stitches) x (number of purl stitches).
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Recommended instead are plums in an eighteenth-century dish, centering a room in which there would be women of primrose and purl.
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Usually, the cables themselves are with a knit stitch while the background is done in purl.
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Each stitch in slip stitch crochet is formed the same way as a knit or purl stitch which is then bound off.
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In other words, every knit stitch is flanked on all four sides (left and right, top and bottom) by purl stitches, and vice versa.
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By contrast, in the flat, garter stitch is produced by knitting every stitch (or purling every stitch, though this is much less common).
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