IamNobuddy@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoTIL ancient Romans used communal toilets—stone benches with keyhole-shaped holes—where people sat side by side without privacy, chatting while waste drained beneath them using flowing water.www.utubepublisher.inexternal-linkmessage-square67linkfedilinkarrow-up1204arrow-down19
arrow-up1195arrow-down1external-linkTIL ancient Romans used communal toilets—stone benches with keyhole-shaped holes—where people sat side by side without privacy, chatting while waste drained beneath them using flowing water.www.utubepublisher.inIamNobuddy@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square67linkfedilink
minus-squareFedizen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·2 days agoCloth was not easy to make and what would they do with it?
minus-squaretaxiiiii@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·edit-22 days agoyou repurpose old fabric. same as with rags. as for what they’d do with it: likely wash and reuse them. same as with cloth diapers nowadays. the alternatives would be leaves from certain plants or water and a hand.
minus-squaresuperkret@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoThis is my interpretation: They’d use scraps left over from making clothes, collect them in a bin and have slaves boil and wash them to re-use. And it was likely a thing for rich people, the poor would just use their left hand and eat with the right.
Cloth was not easy to make and what would they do with it?
you repurpose old fabric. same as with rags. as for what they’d do with it: likely wash and reuse them. same as with cloth diapers nowadays.
the alternatives would be leaves from certain plants or water and a hand.
This is my interpretation: They’d use scraps left over from making clothes, collect them in a bin and have slaves boil and wash them to re-use.
And it was likely a thing for rich people, the poor would just use their left hand and eat with the right.