Simple Pleasures Aren’t Simple (See: Knitting)
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How Gender Affects Knitting
In 16 89, a law passed in vienna limited what exact a woman could knit. In early modern england, pastores openly worried about how knitting gave men and women too much time to talk with each other. Others worried that if women got too comfortable making a living off of knitting, they wouldn't want to be servants any more. Gender also plays a role in one of the most significant turning points in the history of knitting - when william lee invented the stocking frame.
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