Hipster Luddites
The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg
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The Industrial Revolution and Thread
A pair of jeans requires about six miles of thread for weave the fabric. In a pre-industrial context, it would have taken about 100 hours to spin that much thread enough to make a pair of pants with pair of jeans. Take another example, a bandana is 22 inches square. It has about a mile and a half of thread in it. And it would take about 24 hours tospin that. The people who are using a drop spindle or even a European spinning wheel tended to be a little bit slower or drop spindle, much slower. When you're getting to something like a Viking sail, it took longer to make the sail than it did to build the ship.
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