The jacobine knitters of Jean-Baptiste Lesueur. 1793, Carnavalet Museum.
The term (derived from the tricot lemma, which generally refers to knitwear, artisanally or industrially) is used to indicate a female person who works, in fact, knitted using wool or cotton; in the past it was used especially in to women who regularly sat around the guillotine during the French Revolution, in France of the eighteenth century, to assist in the front row of the "show" of decapitation as they were intending to knit. in the literature wikitesto modification
In the novel of Baroness Emma Orczy's novel about The Red Primula, Pimpernel's protagonist dresses like a wine tricoteuse selling wine to secretly escape the aristocrats from Paris, hiding them in barrels.
In Charles Dickens' novel The story of two cities, the protagonist Madame Defarge is a tired and thirsty tricoteuse during Terror.
In the novel by Paolo Coelho Adulterio, on p. 141.
