Hand
The trades that survived, and how they are taught.
4 entries in this section.
Every entry names a thing and the place that holds it. Where the record is thin or contested, the entry says so.
All of Hand
The trades that survivedFive crafts that never quite disappeared, and whyRead
Lime, not cementThe single most common way a well-meant repair destroys the thing it was meant to save.Read
Apprentice to masterA craft vocabulary has no textbook. It lives in the hands of whoever taught the person who taught you — and when one generation doesn't pass it on, the next starts from nothing.Read
Tools that outlive tradesWhen the last practitioner dies, the tool becomes a riddle.Read
The last is cut before the shoe is. It outlives the pair made on it, and usually the maker.
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