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No one knows. The earliest form of knitted fabric that has survived to present day dates to the 3rd century C.E. It's a fragment of a sock done in the nalbinding technique rather than true knitting.

The earliest true knitted fabric has been dated to around 1000 C.E. and was discovered in Egypt.

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