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…
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.
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.