Post #3357738
2026-06-20 00:25 UTC
Anyone else surprised they had this level of luxury, unnecessary design, and contemplating our quality of life in relation to our scale of economy and scientific invention?
Or were these king socks?
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@uen3@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-20 06:08
I imagine when you’re knitting socks by hand- (or with whatever medieval sock loom may have been available?) it’s going to take you almost as long to just make a plain white one. But after the first about two of those you get really bored. Even more so if you were making a full floor size rug. So maybe the motivation for the ‘unnecessary design’ on everything back then was less about the customer’s vanity than the artisan’s sanity.