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Low technology
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Low technology, often abbreviated low tech (adjective forms low-technology, low-tech, lo-tech) is simple
technology, often of a traditional or non-mechanical kind, such as crafts and tools that pre-date the Industrial
Revolution. It is the opposite of high technology.

Low technology can typically be practised or fabricated with a minimum of capital investment by an individual
or small group of individuals. Also, the knowledge of the practice can be completely comprehended by a single
individual, free from increasing specialization and compartmentalization. Low-tech techniques and designs may
fall into disuse due to changing socio-economic conditions or priorities.

Contents
1 Examples of low technology
2 Legal status of low-technology
3 Groups associated with low-technology
4 References

Examples of low technology

Note: almost all of the entries in this section should be prefixed by the word traditional.

weaving produced on non-automated looms, and basketry.

hand wood-working, joinery, coopering, and carpentry.
the trade of the ship-wright.
the trade of the wheel-wright.
the trade of the wainwright: making wagons. (the Latin word for a two-wheeled wagon is carpentum, the
maker of which was a carpenter.)

(Wright is the agent form of the word wrought, which itself is the original past passive participle of the word
work, now superseded by the weak verb forms worker and worked respectively.)

blacksmithing and the various related smithing and metal-crafts.

folk music played on acoustic instruments.
mathematics (particularly, pure mathematics)
organic farming and animal husbandry (i.e.; agriculture as practiced by all American farmers prior to
World War II).
milling in the sense of operating hand-constructed equipment with the intent to either grind grain, or the
reduction of timber to lumber as practiced in a saw-mill.
fulling, felting, drop spindle spinning, hand knitting, crochet, & similar textile preparation.
the production of charcoal by the collier, for use in home heating, foundry operations, smelting, the
various smithing trades, and for brushing ones teeth as in Colonial America.
glass-blowing.
various subskills of food preservation:

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