Did you know that the earliest known examples of knitting were found in Egypt and are dated between the 11th and 14th centuries CE?

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Tissus d’Égypte: témoins du monde arabe, VIIIe. - XVe. siècles. Collection Bouvier, Exposition 1993-1994, Musée d’art et d’histoire à Genève. 1994, Institut du monde arabe à Paris.