Just Create - Constellation Edition

[silvercat17]

If I had checked Habitica earlier I would've remembered this earlier, but it's here now. What have you been up to? How are you doing?

Comments

[alexseanchai]

look, burning all the spinning wheels in the kingdom is not wise macroeconomics! spinning wheels are a labor-saving device compared to hand spinning, and the thread for weavers and sewists to use has to come from somewhere, so there are limited possibilities: spinners transition to hand spinning and spend a lot more person-hours at it to produce the same quantity of thread; thread imports rise; cloth production drops; cloth is worn even more thoroughly before being handed down or discarded; quiet rebels still have and use spinning wheels. and really my money's on all of the above.

so between the working-class women whose spinning wheels are getting burned; at least one mercantile interest in imports; at least one mercantile interest in domestic weaving and sewing; at least one temple to (if not Athena Herself) a patron of fibercrafts; and at least one upper-class (probably nobility) power-hungry person fomenting rebellion; before we even get to the monarch himself; before we even get to whatever mage the king pissed off badly enough that this curse is even in play…

…

*flails*

(but. but I'm so close to finishing where the firelight fades…)

[ryl]

That never made sense to me either. Even if by some miracle everyone's clothes lasted for sixteen-eighteen years (and all the children's clothes grew with them), they would get ripped. Where would they get the thread for mending?