the.com/handmade
proof someone chose to be slower than a machine on purpose.
means made individually by human hands and skill rather than mass-produced by machinery.
from from old english hand plus made, but the modern weight of the word arrives with the industrial revolution, when factories made handmade a marketing term instead of just the default.
pre-1800everything was handmade, nobody bragged about it
william morrisbuilt a whole movement defending it
true costtime, not just materials, is the premium