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A dot or short horizontal bar in a chart square.
Also known as: Dot in a knitting chart, Purl
A dot in the square. The purl is the knit stitch worked from the other side — the same loop seen from behind — and alternating the two is what produces every textured fabric from ribbing to moss stitch.
A dot or short horizontal bar in a chart square, denoting a purl stitch on a right-side row and a knit stitch on a wrong-side row.
Not a different stitch from a knit in structure but the same loop seen from the other face, which is why the two symbols swap meaning between right-side and wrong-side rows.
Alternating knit and purl is what produces textured fabrics: columns of each give ribbing, alternating single stitches give moss or seed stitch, and blocks give basketweave.
A single filled dot or a short horizontal bar centred in a square of a grid.
Knit and purl are the two base stitches and are each other's reverse.