Reading the thread about rabbit fur toys got me thinking about old crafts/tradditions dying out. To be honest some of these old ways need to go however think of all the good things Gran used to get up to and , with the domination of supermarkets, can you imagine them still existing in 20 years time.
Even the WI have been forced to stop selling cakes etc due to silly amounts of red tape.
Hows about a list of everything that wont exist in 20 years time
I reckon on
Jam making
Soup making
what else
we will still be making jam and soup, it's how some of us preserve our summer surplus!!
don't imagine that will stop!!
With the big rise in the uptake of allotments I would be very surprised if jam and soup making goes into decline. :)
Gardening.
after all fruit & veg at Aldi only 49p :-X :-X :-X
Knitting, takes days to knit a jumper that no-one will wear, can buy them cheaper. Baby clothes were all knitted but babies just stuck in a babygrow. I will still knit in winter as I find it relaxing but it is just to amaze myself. Cat is quite interested in it, used to make Readicut rugs and cat and dog just waited for it be finished and had lovely sleeps on it. I used to embroider table cloths but no-one seems to have tea parties nowadays.
We still do Soup, Pickles and Jams. OH does Knitting, dressmaking, cross-stitch, tapestry, tatting, embroidery and when she was feeling really sad she made a rag-rug... ::)
saddad, I always thought you were really, really old. saddad, a bit like an old granddad. But looking at your profile you are only a baby. Perhaps you should change your profile.
Saddad your OH sounds wonderful. Not only can she knit, sew, cook, preserve she can do the most amazing potato ridges. She could teach me a few things on that front. Have you thought of turning her into a video star, earthing up potatoes.
Janet
Think knitting will be around for a bit. It's a growth industry and is quite trendy now for young men and women...yes men too :)
I knit, crochet, spin with a spindle (am learning on a wheel), make homemade wine....so does my two kids ( minus the homebrew ;D
I think crafts ebb and flow and will always be about :)
I'm glad knitting has made a comeback in recent years, it's still hard to find a decent wool shop though.
I think corn dollies will soon be a thing of the past as well as traditional basket making etc (the real old country crafts)
Not only crafts declining.
Home-made gallows for hanging shot crows.
Wood handled chisels.
Cement roof tiles.
Front gardens.
Un-sliced bread.
Quotesaddad, I always thought you were really, really old. (Barlotti)
Neither of us have quite made 50 yet... :)
In 20 years time the majority of housholds will be living on homemade soup and jam. Long term auserity will see to that.
Quote from: Eristic on May 18, 2009, 22:51:09
In 20 years time the majority of housholds will be living on homemade soup and jam. Long term auserity will see to that.
Eristic, have you ever considered a career as a motivational speaker :)
Quote from: Hector on May 19, 2009, 08:24:01
Quote from: Eristic on May 18, 2009, 22:51:09
In 20 years time the majority of housholds will be living on homemade soup and jam. Long term auserity will see to that.
Eristic, have you ever considered a career as a motivational speaker :)
;D ;D ;D
I love crafts. Have dabbled in all sorts of them but no one sems to want the fruits of my labour! Never matches the decor!!!
Years ago people lived with such a mish mash of things. Just as long as it was functional and not broken, it was fine.
My 'spare' shed is full of mish mash things. I can indulge myself to my hearts content, there!!! ;)
if i didn't make thing, both food and things for the house what would i do? Yes i can and do read alot, there never seem to be much on the tele i want to watch ( maybe i am getting old) and there are only so many seeds/plants i can grow for the space i have. ;D
QuoteEristic, have you ever considered a career as a motivational speaker
I like to think that I motivate a few of the readers here. On a more serious note though, there is no teacher like hunger. Go hungrey for a few days and all this stupid pc nonsense flies out the window. You will all look to feed yourselves any way possible and if that means learning to cook you will learn to cook.
Quote from: Eristic on May 19, 2009, 11:42:56
You will all look to feed yourselves any way possible and if that means learning to cook you will learn to cook.
Possibly but the reason I picked jam and the reason I picked 20 years is after all the current bunch of oldies have died off (no offence intended) can you see our current generation of teenagers picking up jam pans and having a go, especially when you can buy jam for 50p at Aldi. Maybe we're all biased on here because we all garden and have gluts or want to eek our produce throughout the year but 20 years ago every household would be preserving and pickling not just a handfull.
What suprises me is supermarkets sell jam at 50p a pot but a small punnet of fruit cost £2.99 ???
How many people bake these days? My mum always baked I can remember mi grandmother baking and making custard tarts everyweek, we always had poultry so god help a hen that stopped laying I must have wrung my first hens neck when I was about seven, those where the days when mi dad walked ten mile in all weathers t'tpit and mi mam would have dolly tub on for him to jump in when he got home an me an mi brother would be fightin to scrub his back for a penny, lovely days, :)
We still bake... :)
saddad, I didn't mean to be rude, it is just your allotment name 'saddad', just made me think of an old granddad. Don't know why, I am almost old enought to be your mother so I can shut up.
I don't worry too much about knitting and corn dollies, but it does concern me that the ability to mend anything is disappearing. Take bicycles for example - how many young lads have top range bikes but can't even repair a puncture? It is a bit worrying.
My main irritation at the moment is the great British cuppa. Why is it that just about everywhere you go it has to come out of a machine, hot water from a machine, and those blasted mini plastic containers of UHT milk. I have two small children who like to drink tea (complete with teapot, milk jug, cups and saucers!) and everywhere it is dumbed down, despite being over £1 per person. >:( Okay - rant over. We need (as a society) to start to care about these details, mend things, look after each other and be PROUD OF OUR TEA RITUALS ;D ;D ;D !
Quotesaddad, I didn't mean to be rude, it is just your allotment name 'saddad', just made me think of an old granddad.
It's what my eldest son said I was when he saw me looking at another (ie this) allotment site on the net... said I should use it as my Username so I did... ;D
Quote from: pippy on May 19, 2009, 18:04:42
I don't worry too much about knitting and corn dollies, but it does concern me that the ability to mend anything is disappearing. Take bicycles for example - how many young lads have top range bikes but can't even repair a puncture? It is a bit worrying.quote]
I am the only one of my friends who possesses a sewing machine.....and they are amazed that I can put together simple items like curtains and soft furnishings that they would not dream of trying to make themselves. Some truly would not know how to repair a small rip in a pair of kids trousers or sew a button on, they just buy more stuff! I was lucky, my mum taught me to sew and I am trying to pass it on to my kids.
My daughter recently finished her GCSE textiles, mostly completed on our sewing machine and she now has a grudging respect that her aged parent knows how to use a pattern and can construct a complicated garment.
OH knows the bike stuff, and taught our son how to maintain his bike as we can't afford new wheels every time he has a puncture! ;D
Good to hear that Debs. :)
I don't have a sewing machine, but have hand sewn curtains, mended clothes and especially patched trousers (small boys). Intersestingly some of the younger mums look disgusted when they see you have patched trouser knees ... obviously its not the done thing anymore ::).
Have just baked a scrummy apple cake .... soup tomorrow ?! ;D ;D
This?
These are my Mum's creations! You can't move in her house for toilet roll middles and boxes of buttons..
love the high - level cistern in the left image!! ;)
My dad was a smallholder in the 1930's, gave it up in 1936 and started building airfields. He cycled 25 miles each way and did a twelve hour day. He bought a second-hand motor cycle for 12s 6d (62.5p)at the end of the first week.
There's a lot of old crafts in our house!
I bake, make jam and soup, make wine, sew, make curtains and soft furnishings, cross stitch, knit (although I am crap at it) sew buttons on, mend stuff etc. etc.
Hubby is just as good, he mends all sorts of things and we have taught his son all sorts of stuff that he currently thinks are daft but hopefully he will remember in years to come when he has a family of his own and is skint.
It amuses me to see the confused looks on my neighbours faces when they see me over the road gathering blackberries and sloes - they haven't a clue, mind you all the more for me! Another thing that isn't what it once was is chestnutting, something I do every year. People are also afraid to gather mushrooms, crazy when there are such excelent ways to make sure you don't poison yourself online.
Helen aged 35 1/4 !!
If we were to have 20 years of austerity the current teens to thirties group are likely to die out or when absolutely starving concede defeat and start working. If they were hungry long enough they would even start to think.
As for the 50p jar of jam, It's not JAM, and in austerity it would not be 50p either.
It's not all teenagers that are in the can't cook won't cook category, just the lower classes. These skills will not die out, if fact I think there is already a national movement by most with a decent education to take their health more seriously.
Some old crafts are simply no longer needed as innovation improves but they are still archived in books and Google to be resurrected should the need occur.
Quote from: Eristic on May 19, 2009, 23:28:39
As for the 50p jar of jam, It's not JAM,
says Jam on the label, looks like Jam and tastes like Jam ;D
joking aside there is a shop in Macclesfield that sells army surplus and you can by a catering size tub of strawberry jam for £2 and its the best jam ive ever tasted, no wonder we have the best army in the world. Who needs body armer when we have strawberry
Not a class thing necessarily....I worked with a very bright person who was from a well padded background who brought up a family of 4 on M&S ready meals...as busy and had "never learned to cook".
my daughter(30) still bakes and cooks from fresh on her days off, my son in law(30) has now taken over cooking when she's working, he makes a mean pan of soup...my grandson (10) has just started cooking(admittedly from a jamie oliver book) and my niece, also 10, loves cooking so it's not all bad ;D