Pendue crochet 
Photo © Carole Ventura The origin of the hook is uncertain. The competing theories on the fact whether he was born in China, there are very early-crocheted dolls made in Peru, found its mark in South America where some primitive tribes used crochet adornments in the rites of puberty, in Tunisia, Egypt or Royam Denmark.
Some think it would come from Saudi where he would broadcast to Eastern Anatolia until, in the Pamir region, Uzbekistan, Tibet ... where he practiced the art of crochet jacquard sock known to Jourab, Jurabi or dzhuraby, then west to Spain. Ultimately it would have followed the Silk Road trade routes and flights to other Arab Mediterranean countries.
© Photo Larisa Vilenksy 
Another source traces the origin of the art of crochet around 1500 BC, we have found some traces in religious communities where he was involved in the work of bobbin lace.
The first works were probably carried out directly with your fingers.
The tool itself was probably developed from a Chinese form of embroidery needle, also known in Turkey, India, Persia and North Africa, and called
tambouring " .
This technique is very similar to the modern form of the hook, except that it was worked on a fabric background with an extremely thin wire, and a sort of neck with a thin needle into a hook over.
Once reached Europe in the eighteenth century, someone would have realized that the points, tied in a chain of principle, stood just as well without the help of the piece of cloth that served as their support, some claim to find the true origin of the hook.
Via Project Gutenberg En Norvège, la technique du crochet s'appelle
pjoning et se pratique (ou se pratiquait ?) avec un crochet en laiton d'apparence rudimentaire et d a triangular shape vaguely reminiscent of a shell. These tools
there appears to be quite old.
Via in Knitting the Swamp 
In Japan, the art of crocheting small toys amigurumi crochet is called.
The Tunisian crochet hook or Afghanistan, meanwhile, is a very old technique which traces were found in the remains of Ancient Egypt. He works with a hook very long and somewhat akin to the art of knitting.
Via London.crafts wiki Over the centuries the hook follows fashion and is transformed gradually, but in Ireland in the 19th century he knows essort a prodigious. After great famine of 1846 he became a genuine domestic industry, the women of the people are initiated quickly to this technology that allows them to work and stay home.
The lace made in Ireland in Dublin or Belfast have been exported worldwide and especially in Victorian England. They served and still serve to decorate clothing or lingerie, but also to make small decorative objects. In France
industry is also growing and gradually replacing the craft, first in Franche-Comte and throughout the East.
the mid-twentieth century, the hook gradually ceases to be an industry. It becomes a craft and a hobby, practiced equally by men and women from all over the world.
© Photo Carol Ventura Ultimately, nothing can know with certainty where and how it began, a little like the invention of agriculture, there are several joint households without a connected across the planet.
The best is yet to marry this inimitable fashion colors revisited in the art of Jacquard, the Anglo-Saxon translate
Tapestry crochet.
Yamaka, Kipp, ethnic dresses, hats, caps, bumper, reticles, mittens ...
© Photos Carole Ventura 
Photo © Danielle Kassner, aka Lara Croft .
There are the boss of these mittens on Ravelry .
