Predating the Pussy Hat Project were the Yarn Bombings in Edmonton, and the peripatetic knitting teens at Langley Fine Arts. Eons before cosy handknit sweaters from aunts warmed my childhood, a long strong thread connected us to the weaving women of ancient mythology, who, as Sophocles says, struck up "the wise shuttle's song, which wakens those who are asleep."
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