there is, of course, nothing new under the sun:
"Many Navajo women were recruited to work at the Fairchild Semiconductor plant in Shiprock, New Mexico, which was located on Navajo land. (...) Many of the women spoke Navajo as their first language and had little formal education, but they were highly skilled in the traditional Navajo craft of weaving. The weaving skills they had honed over many years translated well to the delicate work of assembling and testing integrated circuits."

Weaving was also a useful skill for those building core-memory :
"women who worked on weaving the memory cores were highly skilled and meticulous, as the accuracy of the weaving was critical to the performance of the memory system."

https://www.sparkfun.com/news/6411

(see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory )