{"id":2157,"date":"2010-06-11T10:39:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T15:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2010-06-11T10:39:16","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T15:39:16","slug":"jack-of-all-trades-c-1812","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=2157","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Jack of All Trades&#8221;, c.1812"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Men\u00a0of this description are in\u00a0China\u00a0termed Fia-Con-Culk-Tziang; they practise every kind of occupation; they mend porcelain, repair locks, and solder pipes. They have a portable forge, anvil, furnace, coal, and all sorts of tools. The whole of this baggage is suspended to a bamboo cane; the anvil alone occupies one side to counterpoise the rest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The china-menders are said to be far superior to our menders of earthen-ware; the reason of this is, that, working on a more valuable material, and making a higher charge, they take more pains with it; their piercer, instead of being iron, like that of our stall gentry, has a diamond point; extremely fine brass wire is passed through the holes, and the vessel, for use, is as good as ever&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For a more detailed account on the art of staple repair, see my blog entry &#8220;How did they do that?&#8221; from 5\/12\/10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2159\" title=\"2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2-263x300.jpg 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the book &#8220;China: It&#8217;s Costume, Arts, Manufacturers &amp;c, Volume 3&#8221; by Breton (Jean Baptiste Joseph, M.), published in 1812<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Men\u00a0of this description are in\u00a0China\u00a0termed Fia-Con-Culk-Tziang; they practise every kind of occupation; they mend porcelain, repair locks, and solder pipes. They have a portable forge, anvil, furnace, coal, and all sorts of tools. The whole of this baggage is suspended to a bamboo cane; the anvil alone occupies one side to counterpoise the rest.&#8221; &#8220;The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6019,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions\/6019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}