VERA Platform_172 In both historical visual documents and mythology, we can observe how this knowledge was passed down from mothers to daughters, also in the upper classes, who reserved certain tasks like embroidery for the maids while engaging in other activities like wool carding. Illustration of women of different ages performing household task (cooking and spinning and carding wool) from The costume of Yorkshire (1814) "" iain136 Image IMAGE University of St Andrews VERA Platform ""