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submitted 2 years ago by Stamets@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

Hella unlikely they were used to knit gloves

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[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

You can use a replica to knit gloves, and that's where the theory originated, but real ones are too big to make gloves for humans.

[-] malle_yeno@pawb.social 4 points 2 years ago

My confusion is more "why gloves in particular?" Couldn't this have been used for cloth making in general?

I don't know what this item is called, so I can't look up its size. Is it too big to be used for cloth making at all?

[-] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

No one knows what they were called, so they're just Roman Dodecahedron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dodecahedron

[-] malle_yeno@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago

Cheers, thanks for the link!

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