'Perhaps they were just using knitting as a distraction from the horrors surrounding them – knitting is sometimes used today as a method to treat depression and anxiety in people.
The revolutionaries were living in poverty and this would certainly have been detrimental to their psychological well-being.
I know that I use "knitting as a distraction from the horrors surrounding" me....I keep some bright pink and orange yarn in a camphor-wood carved yarn-bowl on my desk at work. The yarn has started to become a pair of socks, knit on 2.25mm needles, and the colours are pooling in a most-pleasing way - I can't remember the last time I actually knitted on these socks, but just seeing them there every day makes me calm... :)
ReplyDeleteOh, it's a thing. For sure.
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