Ever since I learnt to use a drop spindle and I was shown a spinning wheel, I had the question that probably all handspinners have:
how the fuck did the Sleeping Beauty managed to get punctured by this?
Now, there are theories, very interesting about all that, but what people rarely think is how the consequence of Sleeping Beauty’s curse was her parents burning all spinning related things so that she would never meet her fate.
This effectively means that in this kingdom they have to import most types of fabric and clothing. Or maybe they only import the thread, if they had a flourishing loom industry, but still. They probably can only work with leather and felted wool. Also a problem for ropes of all kinds, now that I think of it.
So the kingdom of Sleeping Beauty was known for about 18 years as (first of all) the kingdom with the terrible policy about spinning, and secondly as the best artisans of leather and felt.
But then, there is also the whole “I am too poor to care, I can just spin with a stick but I do not have any means to acquire thread or clothes in any other way”. A whole black market of home-made spinned thread, a whole way of spinning in creative ways so that you can easily hide what you are doing. A sinking spinning wheel industry but a blooming “just a stick” industry.
And then, she met her fate and so people were like “so I guess I can use a spinning wheel again, or is it too soon?” Regions closer to the castle took longer but nobody really enforced the law after like 6 months anymore.