Craft Traditions
Tanning: the trade nobody wanted next door
Turning skin into leather is a chemical process that takes weeks, smells appalling, and was essential enough that every settlement had someone doing it downwind.
Topic
materials
Every Kohopoho article tagged materials — 3 pieces across 1 section.
Craft Traditions
Paper: a Chinese invention that took a thousand years to reach Europe
Handmade paper is a deceptively simple process — fibre, water, a screen — and the traditions built on it differ enormously depending on which plant was available.
Craft Traditions
Basketry is the oldest container technology and nobody notices it
Baskets predate pottery, survive badly in the archaeological record, and are still made by hand in more places than almost any other craft.