The weavers were experts with hands.
Skilled craftsmen, who’d spent lifetimes mastering their trade, watched automated looms arrive in the textile mills.
Machines made hands optional.
It arrived quiet and fast, a loom that asked for setup, not sweat.
The mills didn’t need masters anymore.
They needed operators. Not hands that could feel tension in thread. Hands that could set thread, load patterns, tune speed, ship on time.
The job changed.
Not stitches, but sequences. Not finesse, but orchestration. Not heritage, but delivery.
Machines eliminated the need for the very expertise these men had built their identities around.
The weavers weren’t the first. They won’t be the last.
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