Crochet in art

Here's a fun picture a fellow teacher found. I thought it was very fitting, so I thought I'd share.

"Girl Crocheting" by Pierre-Auguste Renoir 

This was painted in 1875. It's amazing how long crochet has been around. It's still done completely by hand - no machine (yet) can crochet. (There are knitting machines.) If you give or receive a crocheted gift, you know that it was (sometimes painstakingly) made by actual hands.