Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour, an open thread conveniently located at the intersection of Religion and Politics. We are going to start today by looking at a display of textiles in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
In general, textiles were produced in the home for domestic use. According to a display:
“A skilled worker, using simple apparatus, could produce a complex finished product. Some of the objects used in producing textiles do survive, but the simplest, yet the most sophisticated instrument in textile production—the hand—is undetectable.”
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