where did crochet first started?
<answer> Europe <context> The earliest evidence of crochet as we know it today goes back no further than the 1800's when it became popular in Europe. Shepherd's Knitting from The Memoirs of a Highland Lady, by Elizabeth Grant in 1812 is the earliest written reference to crochet. The first patterns were published in 1824. In France it was known as Crochet Lace, and in England it was Chain Lace.. Today the French, Belgians, Italians, and Spanish-speaking people call it crochet. In Holland they call it haken, in Denmark its haekling, in Norway its called hekling and in Sweden it's called virkning.