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Wealth could be demonstrated with jewelry (brides in some parts of Renaissance Italy, for example, wore their dowry sewn onto their dress as jewels), but textiles were also an important means to display wealth, and the more elaborate the weave of the fabric, and the richer the fibres uses, and the rarer the colour, the better the demonstration of wealth

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Gauge: With the yarn and hook size given, my gauge is about 5 single crochet stitches to an inch

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It is made in China and was transported by boat