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Hipster Luddites

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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The History of Spindles and the Industrial Revolution

In the early 18th century, it took about 20 or 30 spinners to supply one weaver. So throughout history, women were spinning all the time. And I feel like weaving and other aspects of textile production, this is very, as they say, gendered. It's always done by women.

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