Trades weave themselves into the fabric of society.
Vitorino Nambikwara explained that his people initially traded woven ornaments and manioc flour for the newcomers' metal tools.
Some of his most striking photographs, in stark black and white, depict an array of artisans and ordinary people around the world plying their trades: women weaving and churning butter, men binding books and making harps and pipe organs and even waxwork heads.
On this three-week trip, two travelers explore India and Bhutan, visiting villages where age-old trades like weaving, iron-working and pearl piercing are still practiced.
She works as a carer for an elderly couple lapsing into dementia, and their memories of life abroad, working in the spice trade, are woven into the narrative along with Sandrine's homesickness and her cautious exploration of her new, rainy, unwelcoming home.
It may not be entirely a coincidence that Britain's leading aesthete in the latter half of the past century was descended from a Paisley family who supplied twine to the weaving trade, and who at that time may well have shared the weavers' sentiment in agreeing with Cicero that flowers gave wondrous delight.
They worked at such trades as blacksmithing, weaving, leatherworking, glassmaking, and ivory and wood carving.
Over the previous nine months, the Luddite revolt against new technology in the weaving trades that boosted profits but eliminated jobs had spread through the villages of the young lord's native Nottinghamshire.
As the interrupted mining was apparently not continued after the uprising and the international trade links had been severed, the locals switched to cattle breeding, agriculture, fur trade and later carpet weaving as their main occupation.
Long existing as a rural settlement, Neilston's economy was historically driven by farming, although a trade in handloom woven garments from the village's cottage industry also existed from very early times.
