Narnian headcanon week, 4.

[heliopausa]

More head-canon, for fun and profit!  Okay, not really for profit, but really for mild fun (including fierce and fun debates when appropriate!  ;-)  ) as celebration of fifty years or 115, as you like it.

Fourth in the series

 

The Narnian economy before the Winter, had emerged a good way from a purely agrarian one. Mrs Beaver's treadle sewing machine was at that time not at all remarkable; other such machines were widespread, as were other simple machines at a village industrial scale, using human, animal and water power for industries as diverse as weaving, printing, sawing timber, quarrying stone, grinding grain and building.  The Witch delighted in forcing Narnians to see all of this gradually fall to ruins.  Mrs Beaver's sewing machine was one of the last working machines in the country, and had been kept going only by using parts from other machines as replacements as it gradually wore out.

Comments

[edenfalling]

I always figured sewing machines existed in Narnia from time immemorial, since Helen remembered how a simple one was put together and got the dwarfs to help her build an example. But anything she and Frank didn't understand in a similarly in-depth fashion had to be invented piecemeal over time, which makes Narnian technology a deeply weird hodge-podge.

[heliopausa]

Yes, that makes sense. And agreed, definitely a hodge-podge, and not simply pre-industrial England.