There is a category of object assembled entirely without fixings, and basketry is the oldest and most widespread example.
Almost everything else made of many parts is held together by…
There is a container that solves several problems at once, which is why it lasted for two thousand years and why nothing replaced it until very recently.
The problems are…
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There is an assumption about milling that the word itself encourages, and it is wrong in an interesting way.
The assumption is crushing: two heavy stones pressed together, grain…
There is a way of making things that works from the inside out, and it produces shapes no other method can.
Almost every other approach is subtractive or formative: material…
There is a useful test of how hard something is to make: look at what people did before they had it.
Before metal needles, sewing was done with points made…
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There is a building material available almost everywhere, requiring no processing, no fuel and no transport, and a very large proportion of the world's population has lived in houses…