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The history of the socks
The history of the socks from Egyptians to the Millennials
Since when have socks actually been? The first knitting goods were found in Jutland and date from 1500 BC. Knitting goods that resemble stockings were found for the first time in Egyptian graves in Antinoe and date from 500 AD. Follow the history of the socks from the Middle Ages to the present.
Socks as a status symbol to the Middle Ages
Socks or stockings were knitted before industrialization. The first knitting goods found in Jutland date from 1500 BC. The first stockings were found in Egyptian graves in Antinoe and date from 500 AD.
For a long time, stockings were a privilege of the rich, since the production was a secret and knitting an employment for distinguished women. In the Middle Ages, pants and stockings were a piece of clothing together. Later the stockings were replaced on the pants and gradually stockings were created as independent clothing.
The democratization of the sock in modern times
The Englishman William Lee invented the handulent chair, which made knitting easier. The English Queen Elisabeth I received black stockings in 1561, but refused to have a patent for this invention, so that Lee moved to France in 1589 and built up a stocking manufacturer financed by King Henry V there.
Emigrating Huguenots spread the chair all over Europe. With industrialization, the socks became more and more easy to manufacture and thus cheaper. Accordingly, they found more and more spread. Most socks were made from wool at the time. In comparison, they have a lot more selection of materials these days. From Kashmir to Merino and Pima to Merzerized Cotton.
The agony of choice
Socks as mass goods in industrial society
The invention of referending William Lee has been further developed. At the beginning of the 19th century, the first round chairs were used to allow a largely machine -producing. This meant that many home workers were unemployed and many citizens.
Different materials were gradually processed and mass production pace. Socks became a general property and the first industrially produced piece of clothing.
Socks as a service in the Internet age
In the late twentieth century, a founder of the company BLACKSOCKS invented the sock subscription. Since then, resourceful contemporaries no longer have to take care of the socks, as they receive the socks in the always constant quality. The socks become a service distributed over the Internet.
