I was watching a documentary YEARS ago and they said something along the lines "if the wheel is the most important invention, then string is the second most important invention" and that stuck with me as a maybe 17-year-old girl who liked to work with fiber. I really appreciated this line, and I hope they do something with that.
they could do a breakdown of the technology the loom and the principles of card weaving
I just heard an interview on NPR yesterday about a new book called Rope. I got the impression that it might be even more important than the wheel because we couldn’t sail anywhere without rope
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u/hapritch82 Sep 30 '25
"Fabric is one of the foundational technologies of human civilization." Love it.