[Fluorescence]

Hmm, I'm not convinced.

The only geometry the knitting demonstrations justify is "pins around hole". I don't see an argument for the dodecahedron shape or the cast metal. A vastly cheaper wooden jig with nails would service just as well and offer much better ergonomic possibilities, like a handle. The knitting with the finger growing inside the dodec looks unhelpful and implausible.

[eigenket]

> The knitting with the finger growing inside the dodec looks unhelpful and implausible

There are also examples without the big holes in, which would make knitting pretty much impossible.

[lostlogin]

> There are also examples without the big holes in, which would make knitting pretty much impossible.

Gloves for children?

[eigenket]

See the icosahedron here for example

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dodecahedron#/media/File...

[JoeAltmaier]

Romans had mass production facilities for some things. Possibly gloves. So a durable permanent jig is not an unreasonable suggestion.

[bee_rider]

I think the objection is not about unnecessary durability, but unnecessary complexity; you don’t need so many faces to make a glove.

[ertian]

Unnecessary complexity & expense, and if it were part of a mass production process you'd expect to find them clustered in production centers or something. These are found scattered randomly and individually in graves and border forts.

[marcosdumay]

If the thing was for making gloves, the faces would be for different finger sizes.

[lproven]

The holes in them are of different sizes.

[declan_roberts]

The glove is inverted, the fingers are inserted into the holes separately and sewn into the glove using the pins.

When you’re done, you take it off and unfold it.