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with simple and tasteful designs, while the women
tended the spinning-wheel and the loom, or stitched
some article of dress
intended for their own use
or that of the men. Such
work, executed with
simple aids by persons not
belonging to any guild,
has in Sweden for
long ages gone by the
name of sloyd (Swed.
slöjd).
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| Original Sloyd |
But in consequence of many co-operating causes,
this skill in sloyd had by degrees begun to diminish
and, in some places, even to die out and disappear. Much
of the work which in former ages had been executed
in the homes of the peasantry was now taken up by
the rising manufacturing industries, and the improved
communications — railroads, canals, etc. rendered it
considerably easier for the country population to procure
those articles which they had previously been obliged
to make with their own hands. Such cultural progress,
however, always unavoidably bears with it certain
disadvantages and dangers. It is certainly true that,
when work within the family is changed to work
inside a factory, and when handicrafts are transformed
into machinery work, a certain saving of time can be
reckoned upon, but time saved becomes time gained
first when it is profitably employed. If, on the contrary,
this be not the case; if the hour which was before
devoted to productive activity is now spent in idleness
or, what is most surely worse, in drunkenness and
other wrong-doing, then the hour saved becomes an
hour lost, and that not only from a moral, but also from
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