Purls

You can make corrugated ribbing in any configuration you might normally use for ribbing, but the difference is that the knit columns are one color and the purls are another. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These "purls" were occasioned either by very small fish passing through the meshes, or else by large ones who came up, and touching the net with their snout, had taken the alarm and beat a retreat back to the pools whence they had come. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

"purls," when horses have "come down" with me out hunting; and on one occasion in China, when a horse which I mounted for the first time, reared and came over. ❋ Alice M. Hayes (1873)

DJ O'BoyleBrighton, East Sussex• There are often purls of wisdom on the letters page, but recent correspondence Letters, 7 March is clearly from knitwits. ❋ Unknown (2011)

You just knit along, change colors when you feel like it, mixing purls and knits in any combination. ❋ Anne Canadeo (2011)

She dreams that one day we will be able to fashion a language from the sounds of knits and purls. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The women do their purls and double loops and concentrate on the yarn, and somewhere in between that, they talk. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I think I will find sympathy here if I say that my solution was to retrofit simple 3x3 cables along the front by picking which 8 stitches I wanted to use outlining in purls, of course, throwing a rescue line, and bravely dropping those 8 stitches down all 20+ rows of finished knitting, and reknitting them cabled, in place. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Or, I can't tell from the photo, but it may be done in stockinette -- knits all on one side purls on the other. ❋ Katelnorth (2007)

Ai wil bii waring dese to teh Burger Mystury, wif a formal gown, mai purls and mai hidn shotgun! ❋ Unknown (2009)

I think somehow stitching the knits and purls helps weave new ideas into my understanding. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I am working on a Bohus cardigan which means working on the wrong side in detailed colorwork with a mix of knits and purls, and discovered that using the Peruvian method of yarn around neck, thumb to move the yarn, was very helpful for the color that had the most purls. ❋ Unionpearl (2008)

Knitta, please: urban "knit tags" for purls gone wild ❋ Unknown (2006)

*takes [pull], coughs* ... Damn bruh, u purled the [blunt], shit smoking like a [muffler]!! ❋ SavvyBono (2015)

I was sat in the [loft] purling and got some in [my eye], [my neck] hurts. ❋ A Triangle (2016)

When I [typed in] my PURL, [the web] page said "welcome Ms. Kumber" - which was [hella funny] because that was not my name ! ❋ Michael Jahn (2008)

indie purl is very very [clapped] ❋ Sophiehumber (2021)

[She is] such an [Angelica Purl]! ❋ Angelica Purl (2017)

You're an [Angelica Purl]. ❋ Angelica Purl (2017)

I stopped [sending] [messages] to him because he his a purle. ❋ Shooter44 (2016)

"Am i [purling]" "you were purling [like crazy]. it was [all out]" ❋ Margaret (2003)

Lad 1 to Lad 2: "[The sea] is that way, whale." Everyone in [unison]: "[Purls]!" ❋ Meggerz93 (2010)