Lost Arts and Forgotten Skills #229: Challenge | Recap
I’ve been teaching my daughter how to tie knots. Not shoelace knots. Real knots. The kind of safety, household, and technical knots ou...
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I almost let this one pass me by. Then I posted on Facebook, hoping for inspiration. My friends came up with all kinds of ideas: darning socks, using log tables, whittling, weaving, mending teddies, etc. The best was putting a fruit pastille in your mouth without chewing. I nearly used that!
So no idea where this idea actually came from, but I suddenly thought, possibly after reading all the non-techie ideas, that technology can have lost arts too. Not all tech is new. There are things we used to get up to in the 80s and 90s that are definitely lost arts!
Sorry it's a bit lacking in interactivity - it's a hot day!
http://finnberrys.co.uk/LostArts/story_html5.html
So no idea where this idea actually came from, but I suddenly thought, possibly after reading all the non-techie ideas, that technology can have lost arts too. Not all tech is new. There are things we used to get up to in the 80s and 90s that are definitely lost arts!
Sorry it's a bit lacking in interactivity - it's a hot day!
http://finnberrys.co.uk/LostArts/story_html5.html
Nicki: Thanks for the memories!