William-Adolphe Bourguereau, a young crocheter (1825–1905) Despite a few extremely ancient crocheted artefacts, the practise was uncommon in Europe until the 1800s. According to an intriguing theory I've come across, knitting and crocheting both require more fibre than the other, and fibre production was challenging prior to the 1764 invention of the spinning Jenny.
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