The other afternoon the program might comprise English followed by sewing, mending, weaving, or similar handcraft instruction.
"A Stake in the Land"
Peter Alexander Speek
He poured a drink from a decanter that had been looted on Pushan; there was a planet where a republic had been overthrown in favor of a dictatorship four centuries ago, and the planetary dictatorship had fissioned into a dozen regional dictatorships, and now they were down to the peasant-village and handcraft-industry level.
"Space Viking"
Henry Beam Piper
The Kharandas, the people among whom she had once done field-research work, had developed a pre-mechanical, animal-power, handcraft, edge-weapon culture.
"Time Crime"
H. Beam Piper