The first knitted things known to science date back to before the birth of Christ. Archaeologists have discovered them on the territory of different countries: in Egypt, Scandinavia, Peru. Therefore, it can be assumed that people learned to make things in this way in the deepest antiquity, even before the settlement of mankind on the continents.

The most ancient way of knitting is knitting with a needle. Today, this technique is known to a few needlework enthusiasts and ethnographers. It was especially common in Scandinavian countries and in the North of Russia, so they knitted socks, mittens, hats. The most ancient Egyptian things, too, apparently, were connected with a needle. In addition to clothing, fishing nets and snares for hunting small animals have long been knitted and continue to be knitted.
Why men?
These types of needlework are combined by weaving threads and knitting knots. The oldest knitting technique with a needle, which is called the “archaic stitch”, consists precisely in the sequential knitting of knots from yarn, which is somewhat similar to an overcast stitch.
The creation of a fishing net or snares is also unthinkable without knots and loops. And tying knots has long been considered, and is now considered the most masculine occupation. When building a home, hunting, fishing, swimming, knots are indispensable. Men always make equipment for hunting or fishing themselves, not allowing women to do this.
Therefore, the first knitters of various complex, durable and beautiful knots were men. This is how, by the way, the art of macrame arose. It reached its perfection in the days of the sailing fleet, when the sailors, in between shifts, had fun by braiding bottles, knife handles with knots and even creating entire panels for the captain's cabin.