wlbragg wrote in Sun May 05, 2019 9:17 pm:The spinning wheel made me stop and think about a simpler time and how people used to have different skill sets for getting through day to day life.
About 'simple' I don't really know... Plenty of what they had seems pretty high-tech if you actually have to reproduce it somehow. For instance, we're learning to tan leather, and while I certainly get something out of the process, it certainly isn't as smooth as I would wish - but I don't even have the faintest where in the process I need to improve to get better results. Let alone that I would dare to tackle a large skin like a cow... Whereas in past ages, they could do this routinely.
And now consider e.g. a viking ship, the amount of experience and skill that needs to go into that.
Certainly skill sets were very different those days...