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KokusnussRitter@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
I could not verify the “so good at weaving that she was financially independent” part. According to wikipedia it originally refered to women who spun wool - usually unmaried women. Over time it became derogatory.
remotelove@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
It’s so much more complicated than that, it seems. Wool was a major business, even back then: cambridge.org/…/A173396BD9F8E10E74634263506620BE
While I don’t think that article proves or disproves a woman being financially independent through spinning, it does hint that wool was extremely expensive, big business and it took quite a bit of cash to buy the raw materials.