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As athletes sneak in a few calming rows between events in Milan, Italy, fans at home are knitting right along with them turning the Winter Games into a shared stitch by stitch ritual.
In Maine and Nova Scotia, there really is a tradition of knitting shrinking Fishermen’s mittens.
Then Athens and the city-state of Sparta got into a long conflict, the Peloponnesian War, and that’s where our latest story about women’s work comes in.
Women have been involved with textiles throughout time; after all, they have been inspired by a goddess!
The ancient game of Caupar is mentioned in several historical records, and several old paintings and embroidery pieces show kings and subjects playing it with gusto. It is still played with gusto across India.
