Category: Muscle Matters

A handy mill

Feeding an army in the depths of a Russian winter requires some handy ideas. Handmills like this one were carried...

Nice rice

Mill don’t just grind flour. This is a donkey-powered rice mill in China. It makes use of an Edge Runner Stone rather...

The life-giving camel

Mills come in all shapes and sizes: sometimes they even come with a camel. This postcard shows a camel-driven Saqiya...

She’s a jolly miller

“With flour-dust sprinkled in her greying hair and a beaming smile [she] runs, all alone, the centuries-old watermill of Thunder...

Curious quern

This Quern is thousands of years old and is one of the earliest ancestors of modern milling. This ancient Gem...

Flour power

“Some of the work in a flour mill requires a good deal of muscular strength, and in peace days such...

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