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I saw someone using one of these to weave or knit or something, and it seemed to me a pretty good explanation.
Edit: If it's truly such a mystery, is it at all possible these only exist because they looked interesting? Just a knick-knack for your shelf?
"Did you see those things Caius Cosades is making down at the den? Not much you can with them, but they're neat."
It's not as though we don't make pointless and artistic things today.
Except those objects were found in coin hordes and the graves of rich aristocrats, and must have been too valuable to be a simple knitting tool.
And for some reason, this style of knitting would have then disappeared until it was reinvented the 16th century.
Maybe it was the original NFT