From the earliest times of mankind bags from the hides of wild and later domesticated animals have been manufactured to be used for collecting and carrying fruit or game or whatever there was collected or killed. ...

Right up to the first half of the 19th century, shoes were exclusively made by hand with tools such as curved awls, hammers, chisel-like knives, scapers, spoke-shaves and drawknives - tools that had been in use as early ...