So you know the whole thing in the story, Sleeping Beauty, where it was foretold she would die by pricking her finger on a spindle when she was 16 years old? And her dad, the king, thought it'd be a great idea to burn all the spindles and spinning wheels in the land? Did anybody ever think about the impact to the cloth and fiber trade that would have?
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I mean, up until literally the 1840s, every single piece of thread for every hank of yarn or piece of cloth, from children's smallclothes to the sails of ships, was handspun. Get rid of every spindle and spinning wheel, and you've basically gutted your fiber production on a fundamental level. I can't imagine the impact to the national economy.