tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-307456332768449014.post4676252302532366142..comments2024-01-30T22:58:19.559-08:00Comments on School of the Renaissance Artisan: Shoemakers and Tailors: Because naked people have little or no influence on society...Eternal Apprenticehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17970817049875891713noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-307456332768449014.post-43752490601340907562013-09-02T18:16:09.522-07:002013-09-02T18:16:09.522-07:00You make a good point and I agree entirely... thou...You make a good point and I agree entirely... though I don't think I've heard that bit about the Amish before. Anyway, when someone sneers and says "Sewing isn't very masculine" I point out that a sewing machine is a power tool and the only one in the place that I've actually hurt myself with (because I didn't respect it and got bit). Knitting, sewing, embroidering, tailoring et al were respectable trades for men throughout history and remain so today in many parts of the world. My uncle Jesse made all the baby quilts in my family and was a helluva good cook whose recipes persist to this day at family gatherings.Eternal Apprenticehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17970817049875891713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-307456332768449014.post-61629394922968594742013-09-02T17:20:40.770-07:002013-09-02T17:20:40.770-07:00I was surprised to see on TV that the Amish look o...I was surprised to see on TV that the Amish look on men who sew as being perverts or something. I guess they've never heard of tailors. I've read that most frontiersmen could sew as fine a seam as the wives, because they HAD TO. We are a strange society!Gorges Smythehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08777621500611603786noreply@blogger.com