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You don’t have to be a scholar in gender studies to wonder why textile has been a bit overlooked when looking back at human development.

by plufz 12d ago

noosphr 12d ago
By who? The cotton gin and spinning jenny are front and center in any history of the early industrial revolution.
- schrectacular 12d ago
  The development of dyes was the genesis of the chemical industry, but no one really talks about that.
  - tyho 12d ago
    I googled "history of the chemical industry" and synthetic dyes were mentioned prominently by each of the first five results returned.
  - usrusr 12d ago
    It's just the A in BASF. But yeah, that entire IG Farben episode might have toned down their enthusiasm for identifying with dyes a little. Same for their peers up and down the Rhine.
- bluGill 12d ago
  That a technology to develop the spinning wheel should have been around a lot sooner, but it seems to have not appeared until relatively late in the history. Now yes, we are talking probably a thousand years before, but the idea is simple enough that you would think that the ancients who knew all the different pieces such as the lathe could have made that work. Spinning Jenny? Yeah, that's complex enough that it couldn't have appeared much sooner. I'm not sure if the cotton gin would have been possible sooner or not.
  - oblio 12d ago
    If you want to dive deeper, this looks at exactly that question: https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/out-of-whole-cloth https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/out-of-whole-cloth
- plufz 12d ago
  I didn’t mean industrialization but more articles like this one https://www.gu.se/en/news/textile-production-a-driving-force-in-bronze-age-europe https://www.gu.se/en/news/textile-production-a-driving-force...
gosub100 12d ago
You don't have to be a materials science Ph.D to know that stone and metal last a bit longer than cloth.
redwood 11d ago
The irony of the comment you're making is that you are the one drawing from a gender stereotype that is ambiguous with respect to its immutability across time and culture

You don’t have to be a scholar in gender studies to wonder why textile has been a bit overlooked when looking back at human development.

by plufz 12d ago

You don’t have to be a scholar in gender studies to wonder why textile has been a bit overlooked when looking back at human development.

noosphr 12d ago

By who? The cotton gin and spinning jenny are front and center in any history of the early industrial revolution.

schrectacular 12d ago
The development of dyes was the genesis of the chemical industry, but no one really talks about that.
- tyho 12d ago
  I googled "history of the chemical industry" and synthetic dyes were mentioned prominently by each of the first five results returned.
- usrusr 12d ago
  It's just the A in BASF. But yeah, that entire IG Farben episode might have toned down their enthusiasm for identifying with dyes a little. Same for their peers up and down the Rhine.
bluGill 12d ago
That a technology to develop the spinning wheel should have been around a lot sooner, but it seems to have not appeared until relatively late in the history. Now yes, we are talking probably a thousand years before, but the idea is simple enough that you would think that the ancients who knew all the different pieces such as the lathe could have made that work. Spinning Jenny? Yeah, that's complex enough that it couldn't have appeared much sooner. I'm not sure if the cotton gin would have been possible sooner or not.
- oblio 12d ago
  If you want to dive deeper, this looks at exactly that question: https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/out-of-whole-cloth https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/out-of-whole-cloth
plufz 12d ago
I didn’t mean industrialization but more articles like this one https://www.gu.se/en/news/textile-production-a-driving-force-in-bronze-age-europe https://www.gu.se/en/news/textile-production-a-driving-force...

gosub100 12d ago

You don't have to be a materials science Ph.D to know that stone and metal last a bit longer than cloth.

redwood 11d ago

The irony of the comment you're making is that you are the one drawing from a gender stereotype that is ambiguous with respect to its immutability across time and culture