Having talked to a couple of knitting experts this weekend, the concensus was that it was woven rather than knitted. One of the problems is that oftentimes during these eraly archelogical expeditions there was no textile expert present, and what the finder discribed it as stuck, similar to the Southhampton sling, orignally it was desribed as a shoe tounge.
We really, really need a current photograph of this artifact, in order to be sure on it's method of construction. Based on my experience with the Gdansk sling recreation and an exercise I went through this winter on accuractely drawing an excavated artifact has caused me to realise the extremely limted information that can be gleaned from a line drawing
One alternate prossibility was that it was Nalbound, instead of knitted
Marc Adkins
Fundibularius wrote on Mar 31
st, 2009 at 12:42pm:
Very impressive. They look perfect. I think I'll start knitting them, too.
BTW: The Cortaillod sling proves that knitting is much older than presumed under the topic.