Limited perspective

And as she talked I called up images of women knitting and realised that it is gone.

Well, I suppose this is a different angle than the typical late-to-the-game article about knitting's resurgence. The above quotation comes from an Australian newspaper blog post titled "Disappearing skills".

I think the point to take away from this is that sometimes we really don't know more than what our own experience tells us. It helps to look around.