Catoblepas comments on it's obviously a thingamajig

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Before someone posts it, no, it’s not for knitting; there are solid ones that would have been useless for that and knitting isn’t known to have been present in the Roman Empire.

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[–] Ratio_Tile@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 days ago* (2 children)

What do you mean knitting wasn't present in the roman empire? That's slightly less absurd than saying knots didn't exist in the bronze age! Lack of evidence doesnt mean it's not present! There's lots of things we know for sure happened during the roman empire despite no one writing about it, like child baptism in early christianity. We don't know what it looked like, but we know where it happened and that everyone was in agreement about the method.

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[–] Dumnorix@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Knitting is 17th century (in Europe). In Rome you'd have nalbinding as an alternative.

There's a lot of evidence, both direct and indirect, of textile production techniques. I can recommend reading books from Karina Grömer, if you're interested in the subject.

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[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 2 days ago

Knitting is a technology, and there isn’t evidence it emerged uniformly throughout the world. Think about the environment that Rome is in; what good is something knitted in a hot Mediterranean climate? We have tons of art and literature documenting weaving, which was very important to Romans, but none of knitting. If you have evidence they had it you should publish it.

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