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Is knitting a medieval craft

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Anonymous

9y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Yes, crochet and knitting has been around for a very long time. Without record keeping, there is no evidence for how long it has truly been around. We can estimate that it evolved from the Middle East, China or Japan.

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