The only way to make one's work known was to declaim it in the several literary cafes which then sprang up, or anticipating samizdat to circulate it in manuscript.
Similarly, many unlucky merchants set up in settlements which disappeared, or which succumbed to one of the calamitous fires that swept the towns that sprang up.
Archaeological evidence indicates that sprang predates knitting; the two needlework forms bear a visible resemblance and serve similar functions but require different production techniques.
