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trades
document updated 10 years ago, on Jul 11, 2014
I'm really interested in how people did tradeskills before the industrial revolution.
hand-made rope from stinging nettles
bow lathe
and later, the
pole lathe
how-to files, from circa ~1900
Modern primitivism
Modern re-imaginings of older tools:
OpenSourceEcology
cheap low-tech metal lathes
NoTechMagazine
(sister site to
LowTechMagazine
)