As soon as people were people, they started expressing themselves. If they ever stop, they’ll be something else imo
…when they had fuck all to do they sat down and wrote (books, letters) for fun.
Just for the record, before the invention of radio, TV and the mass production of goods, they also had a variety of real-world crafts they could do and things they could make for fun & profit.
Before the mechanical loom. The whole world was basically creating thread and weaving full time. It would take just as long to hand make a sail for a viking ship as it would to make the whole rest of the ship.
The whole world was basically creating thread and weaving full time.
That’s an underrated point, and (seems to me) severally under-emphasized in various historical fiction and such. Also could be kind of minimized / hand-waved away by many because it was (I’m guessing) seen as ‘poor persons and womens’ work,’ with the rights of both of such groups commonly dismissed across history, going back ages…
Exactly. However if you were weaving silk, you were making bank.
that also has disappeared?
I’d say that’s on a case-by-case basis. Hobbyists still weave on looms, even though there’s not strict need. People still build radio sets from scratch, and yadda-yadda…
One of the things that always interested me about living in a commune is that there’d be a need to do stuff like this to some extent, on an ongoing basis.
i mean, now people are building the craziest shit with 3d printers. the crafts have just gotten cooler i’d argue
