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Forgotten Artifacts of Old Craftsmanship
A crossword exploring vintage and obsolete tools and instruments once essential in traditional trades and crafts.
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Across
  • 1. Holder for wax light source, predating electric lamps
  • 2. Manual tool used to bore holes before electric drills
  • 3. Weight used to regulate clocks before electronic timing
  • 4. Method of shorthand writing using symbols
  • 6. Craftsman who made arrows by hand
  • 11. Metal measuring instrument, often rust-resistant but now less common in crafts
  • 14. Navigation instrument used to measure angles between celestial objects
  • 16. Ancient counting tool made of beads on wires
  • 17. Type of mechanical mechanism requiring manual resetting
  • 18. Spiked device scattered to hinder movement, historically used in warfare
Down
  • 5. Feather pen used for writing before modern pens
  • 7. Tool used to spin thread or yarn from fibers
  • 8. Traditional wooden plough used before mechanized farming
  • 9. Machine used for pressing or wringing laundry
  • 10. Person or machine arranging movable type for printing
  • 12. Machine used in printing to cast lines of type mechanically
  • 13. Ancient device used to solve problems related to time and the position of the stars
  • 15. Ancient method of recording numbers or accounts by marks
  • 19. Old firearm ignition mechanism using sparks from flint
  • 20. Device that tells time by casting a shadow from the sun

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