Buttons 

Clothing before buttons relied on heavy metal brooches, pins and cloth drawstrings. People did not use buttons or make them because buttons are smaller and were easier to lose also they were sewn on your shirt or pants whatever you could not move it. Unlike the pin or brooch where you could take them off and put them on another piece of clothing. Another reason is because they did not have plastic they had to make them out of metal which was expensive. This changed after the little ice age swept across Europe at that point it became important to have warm clothes. It turns out buttons made it easier to make warm clothing. It’s because buttons could fasten from fitting clothing to your body tightly and that helps improve keeping the heat. They were also used to  help fasten purses and other things like that. 

Oil Painting 

Tempera paint was the most common pant. It was made of egg yolks ( “ binder “) and pigment. Oil paint is more durable than tempera. Tempera is basely made of water like water paint. Tempera  was used in indoor painting and oil paint was used to paint stuff outside like painting a shield and if it rained the oil paint would not wash away like the tempera paint. Jan Van Eyck was the one who adapted oil paint to portraits and landscapes and moved the techniques of painting. 

Cannons 

 Cannon is a big gun meat to launch projectiles using gunpowder appeared by 1250 AD. They were more powerful and faster than trebuchet. The first cannon were probably used in span by the muslums against the Spanish. 

  Spinning Wheel

The spinning wheel is a belt driven device that makes thread to make cloth. Before the spinning wheel it was harder to make thread as fast as the cloth was being made. Also there was the fact that there was a lot of demand for the cloth. Inventions of the spinning wheel innovations in the loom made it faster to make high quality cloth but thread production could not keep up until the spinning wheel           

 But the spinning wheel helped making the thread eraser. 

The most interesting thing I learned about this week

The most interesting thing I learned about the week was about how the oil paint is more durable than the tempera paint . The reason I find this so interesting is because I use watercolor paint and sometimes oil paint. When I paint and if I can I will get my mom to paint too because she is really good (in my opinion).