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A standardised chart alphabet readable without the language.
Also known as: JIS knitting symbols, Japanese chart symbols
JIS L 0201 standardises Japanese knitting symbols, which is why a Japanese pattern book can be worked by someone who reads no Japanese. The symbols are pictorial: many of them look like the path the yarn actually takes.
Provide a standardised chart vocabulary under Japanese Industrial Standard L 0201, used in Japanese pattern publishing.
Contexts: Laundry
Are workable without reading Japanese, since the chart carries the whole instruction and only the accompanying text needs translation.
Contexts: Laundry
Are largely pictorial, several symbols tracing the path the yarn takes through the stitch rather than being arbitrary marks.
Contexts: Laundry
Small line shapes in a grid, several curving or crossing to trace the path of a strand.