that also has disappeared?
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
…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.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
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.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
i mean, now people are building the craziest shit with 3d printers. the crafts have just gotten cooler i’d argue
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
If you say so. But hobbyists are still doing crafts & stuff that mankind was doing thousands of years ago.
Or, look at mini-painting, par exemple. That’s something artists and tacticians were involved in since near the dawn of civilisation, and today, it’s kind of a super-hobby.
phonics@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
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…
phonics@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Exactly. However if you were weaving silk, you were making bank.