[xp38]

Totalitarian knitters. I guess this goes back to the French Revolution.

Tricoteuse (French pronunciation: ​[tʁikɔtøz]) is French for a knitting woman. Amongst the items they knitted was the famous liberty cap or Phrygian cap. The term is most often used in its historical sense as a nickname for the women who sat beside the guillotine during public executions in Paris in the French Revolution, supposedly continuing to knit in between executions.

[TangoLimaSierra]

French pronunciation: ​[tʁikɔtøz]

I gotta say, that didn't help.

[Dan in Wichita]

famous liberty cap or Phrygian cap

The Liberty Cap was used prominently on the coins of the early United States, to announce to the world the newly created United States was not ruled by a monarch or dictator. The origins of the Liberty Cap (aka Phyrgian cap) date back to Roman times, when liberated slaves wore the cap to signal their freedom.