The majority of rod wrapping during the days of bamboo was done by women who were often paid on the amount of work that they completed. This seems to have gone away when the major rod makers (Heddon, Montegue, South Bend, Phillipson, Wright and McGill/Granger, Horrocks Ibbotson, etc...) switched to fiberglass in the 1950s. Maybe there was a parallel with women stock carvers in the 1950s and 60s.
