Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional customs - In Europe, traditionally, what do women do at home? If not needlework, as there seem to be a lot of men who are tailors.

In Europe, traditionally, what do women do at home? If not needlework, as there seem to be a lot of men who are tailors.

Before the industrial revolution, whether in Europe or Asia, the basic routine of a housewife was pretty much the same: cooking, washing and bringing up children, spinning and weaving, and making clothes. During the busy farming season, they also helped men with agricultural labor, such as harvesting and sowing, shearing sheep and wool. It was a common phenomenon that a family in the European countryside could not make a new set of clothes for many years, due to the limitations of productivity and raw materials. As for the common medieval tailor store on TV, that is to be a large town only, do a set of clothes cost a lot of money, the main service object is also the aristocracy.