In general, types of knitting can be classified into hand knitting and machine knitting. Hand knitting can be used by people at home while machine knitting is mainly used in industry because of high price of knitting machine. Knitting with straight needles, circular needles and double pointed needles or finger knitting is considered as hand knitting. Loom knitting can be also called as machine knitting.
However, crochet is not a type of knitting because crochet uses a structure of knots joined together while knitting has a structure which is more similar to weaving on a fabric loom. In knitting, stitches are carried from row to row. In crochet, new stitches are created each row on a foundation of old stitches.
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