Great. I need a mailing address, please. If you don't already have my email, go through my website's contacts page. They don't need to languish here getting misplaced. (I've already misplaced the little cardboard thingie that they were attached to with elastic...it may have gone out in the trash, but if I find it will include it.)

Oh--I found the cardboard strip, so the needles are now in their original packaging, snugged into their elastic holders.

So I looked up high tech knitting needles on the web.

What a kick.

What will they think of yet. I would have thought that there were no improvements to be made to such an old technology.

A little rain up here in NH.

Jonathan

People are knitting with different fibers than back in the day, and different kinds of needles offer choices to go with the fibers (sticky fibers, slick needles; slippery fibers, not so slippery needles.) Most people don't knit with greasy wool (wool with a lot of natural oils left in) but some do, and the same needles may not suit both.

I haven't knitted with silk (yet) but I understand it slides off metal needles like butter off a hot knife. I've knit with acrylic tips, metal tips, wood tips--and they're not the same, performance-wise.