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This week on the blog! At long last, the heart of the pre-modern textile production process: spinning and weaving: https://acoup.blog/2021/03/19/collections-clothing-how-did-they-make-it-part-iii-spin-me-right-round/ … Spinning in particular represented c. 85% of all of the labor-time in making clothing and was probably the most common ancient work task.
I have to admit, given such an important topic, this post (despite its length) feels insufficient. There's a lot I couldn't fit in here (I think there will be at least one 'addendum' post covering more complex weaving patterns and tablet weaving)...
...but the real central idea here is not so much the processes and techniques, but the labor intensity of textile production and what that meant for the lives of household spinners/weavers - which must have been most women in the pre-modern world. Check it out!
Amazing (though expected) to see a local Swiss heroine represented here with our good reine Berthe!
I ran into that painting looking for images and then just had to run down the background to it, which turned out to be a wonderful illustration of the place that spinning had in medieval conceptions of ideal womanhood.
Great post! "A nuclear farming family will struggle to clothe themselves" was not the conclusion I was expecting, and it really adds color to the ancient world.
On a darker note, pre-spinning-wheel, the incentives for slave raiding/trading are depressingly apparent.
So many puns in this post. More seriously though, wow, I knew the textile time investment was a lot but had no idea it was *this* much.
I know @EconTalker will be interested in this one...
I felt it was a moral imperative to work on a crochet project with silk roving while @elfich47 read this to me last evening.
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