Antique

I had the pleasure of going to Greenfield Village and I was able to see antique knitting, weaving, and carding machines. It is interesting to see how far technology has come to make jobs like mine easier. Everything is faster than 100 years ago. Even though these machines are out of date, huge, heavy, slow and not computerized they have value because they were the steps to get us to where we are today. Its amazing that back then these machines were "the new gadget", "cool". They were cool because sometime before these inventions were around,like the carding machine ..cotton fibers were cleaned of their seeds by hand tools, so there was an even longer process to create yarns and eventually fabric. Now these inventions are part of history :]