Are you big into handicrafts? I really like sewing and it has such an interesting history, apparently we used to stitch animal hides together for clothing.
That is interesting.  I've actually never heard of handicrafts.
I just meant making little hats and what not. I'm more of a hands on person, I don't use a machine even though that's what's led to the mass production of so many sewn objects.
I've always wanted to learn to use a sewing machine.  I'm the first generation that doesn't know how to sew. 
It's so convenient, because it eliminates the need for needles and thimbles, but it just doesn't have the same feel to me.
I wonder how thimbles came to be. They're such an interesting invention.
The Old English word "þȳmel", the ancestor of thimble, is derived from Old English "þūma", the ancestor of the English word ‘thumb’.
History.
History Pre-17th century.
A single steel needle from the time of the Han Dynasty ancient China (206BC – 202AD) was found in a tomb in Jiangling, and it could conceivably be assumed that thimbles were in use at this time also although no thimble seems to have been discovered with the needle. The earliest known thimble — in the
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