Description
A webring that linked 191 hobbyist sites about knitting, and the member sites that could still be recovered.
Provenance
Recovered from a hosting company’s retired backup tapes, with the owner’s permission. The service’s own export format was undocumented and was worked out from the data. The image matches a checksum published by the original distributor.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
984d118a1cb19e4019b405bb0b8fe428b4536835352972fc27a8db2e05a05a64- Last verified
- Oct 6, 2026, by Vigil
- Migrated to
- WARC, replayed in the reading room
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- None. Captured over the network.
Access
Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.
Reading-room copies are migrated to WARC, replayed in the reading room. The recovered files are kept exactly as they were found.
Cite as: Arjun De Vries, The Knitting Ring (2016–2017). Lazarus Archive, LZ-22412.