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Oh come on. There are tons of things that are better handmade even in a modern world. Clothing, high end silverware, tables, rugs, knives, glassware, jewelry an
by owenversteeg 8y ago
Oh come on. There are tons of things that are better handmade even in a modern world. Clothing, high end silverware, tables, rugs, knives, glassware, jewelry and musical instruments off the top of my head.
Specifically for many musical instruments, machine-made is out of the question. For example, violins - there's an enormous amount of money to be made, but the entire market is handmade (even the low-end ones are ultimately assembled by hand, at extremely low wages in China.)
- antisthenes 8y agoIsn't all clothing essentially hand-made? It's not like a chopstick that has 1 size, where you can press a button on an industrial chain of machines and end up with 10,000 chopsticks from 1 log of wood.
- Retric 8y agoDepends on if you include sewing machines and looms as hand made. I personally don’t think they qualify making just about everything outside of knitting machine made.
- Retric 8y agoSewing machines and looms don’t result in hand made clothes. High end clothing is generally machine precision with custom sizing not hand made. Hand made cloth is an interesting novelty, but rare.
- eru 8y agoMy point was specifically that we have higher quality items today. Both machined and handmade. The quality of handmade items has improved a lot. Partially of course, because machines have corned the lower end of almost all markets; so if you go to the trouble of making things by hand, it better be good.