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Knitting, crochet, sewing, embroidery and weaving notation. The group's organising question is which of these notations is international and which is not: a Japanese knitting chart under JIS L 0201 is workable by someone who reads no Japanese, while single crochet names different stitches in American and British English and a cross stitch chart is useless without its manufacturer-specific key. The sewing members are the consequential ones — a misread grainline arrow produces a garment that twists on the body and cannot be corrected by alteration.
The rule that rows alternate direction as the work turns.
Brackets or a bold line marking the part that repeats.
A standardised chart alphabet readable without the language.
A cross or an X standing for the shortest worked stitch.
Crossbars on a stem counting how many times the yarn is wrapped.
A closed loop at the centre of a worked-in-the-round chart.
A long double-headed arrow aligning a pattern piece with the fabric.
A triangle or slit showing where two pieces must align.
A long narrow triangle showing fabric to be folded out.
A bracketed arrow meaning the piece is cut double.
A dashed line inside the cutting line.
A wavy line between two points to be drawn up.
Arrows and lines showing which way fabric folds over.
Letters and shapes in a grid standing for thread colours.
A small filled dot standing for a wrapped knot.
Numbered arrows showing the order needle enters and leaves.
The top grid saying which shaft each warp thread passes through.
The two grids saying which shafts each treadle lifts and in what order.
Numbers whose meaning depends on which national system.
A named grid diagram specifying how a block is pieced.
Diagrams tracing the path of a cord through a knot.
Abbreviations and numbers counting the stitches of each ring.
Percentages naming what a fabric is made of.