Classical mythology is full of female sewers or weavers, and thread plays an important role as a textile element: the element that Ariadna uses to guide Theseus through the labyrinth of Crete, Aract as a spinner challenging Athena or Penelope by doing and undoing the same woven while waiting for Odysseus. Women who sew at home, embroider, or simply "do embroidery", as it used to be said before, maybe they did not have such high standards while focusing on the precise, silent task of embroidering or sewing damaged clothing. But “knowing how to sew” was an indispensable thing in women's education, at least until the end of Franco's rule, and was often accompanied, as if it was a ritual, by the fact that what began to be sewn by young girls was their own dowry. Once in the "government" of the house, sewing can be a hard work or it can also become a distraction, which in this case makes no distinction of social classes.