An interesting historical note: knitting was once (in Medieval England/Europe) a guild-controlled art forbidden to women. The skill was used primarily to make expensive stockings. However, a clever woman figured out how it was done and taught her friends, subverting the guild's exclusionary tactics. This led to knitting becoming a cottage industry instead of a guild-based art, and then (possibly because of the abundance of supply), the price of knitted goods was depressed to the point that ONLY women who had few other means of earning money (and may have had a husband/father/brother to support them) while raising children could afford to make them.
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