[SunkenCiv]

In before the "who's wasting my tax dollars" messages started.

[SunkenCiv]

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[martin_fierro]

"We look at objects ranging from cooking wares and coins to wall paintings and loom weights. We trace the links between the people who made, used, and taught others to make them.

This one's a stumper.

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British tax dollars, anyway...

[Knitting A Conundrum]

As a freelance history type, I started doing this a long time ago, when I realized how the historians didn’t realize the impact of the introduction of horizontal loom technology in 10th century Flanders impacted the cloth industry, which in turn drove the rebirth of trade based on high value woolen cloth in the 11th and 12th centuries...without the horizontal loom, one would not have had the broad cloth loom. Without broadcloth and other luxury goods, one wouldn’t have had the revival of trade and the creation of trade fairs, and the rise of the Italian banking houses and possibly the invention of double entry bookkeeping. Etc. Etc.

It’s all linked - how people live their lives, why they live their lives the way they do, what they believe about the nature of things and the arts, power politics and social mores. And it’s useful (and from my pov fun) to study things that way.

[marsh2]

It’s like the PBS “Connections” series. It was fascinating. Learn how a jaquard loom was a precursor to a computer.
http://www.shoppbs.org/sm-pbs-connections-connections-3-dvd-5pk—pi-1450814.html

“Burke shows why the cobalt used to dye ancient Ming vases led to the development of computer chips”