> A large part of the labor was women's labor which history doesn't record much of

Women spent much of their lives making textiles. It likely wasn't recorded much because it was so ubiquitous.

For example, my family photographs when I was growing up were nearly all about documenting unusual events, like birthdays, holidays, and vacations. The humdrum ordinary things were not photographed. For example, there was only two photos with the family car incidentally in the frame. No photographs of the neighborhood. One photo of the school I attended. No pictures of my dad at work. No pictures of my mom cleaning the house. And so on.

It gives a fairly skewed vision of life then.

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bluGill 17 hours ago | parent [-]

That too, but we know more about men's work that was just as ubiquitous. Though the vast majority of history is about those in charge - the 0.0001%.

	▲	WalterBright 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> the 0.0001% The ones who can read and write expect to be paid, and the wealthy and powerful will commission them to write about what interests the wealthy and powerful - i.e. themselves. This state of affairs persisted until the advent of the printing press, which made for a mass market of ordinary people.