Actual trade items someone can buy

Super fun topic. Some of these probably overlap with what you had in mind, or are already covered in lists somewhere. Nevertheless:

  • Hair ties, pins, clips, ornaments
  • tattoo inks, body paints (stuff like henna)
  • pouches, purses, backpacks
  • themoses, water skins, buckets, barrels, water filters (apparently water filters were invented by Hippocrates)
  • footwear (boots, shoes, sandles, vibrams)
  • headwear (hats, turbans, etc)
  • basic gardening implements (spades, pruners, hand rakes)
  • farming implements (theshers, sickles, hoes)
  • construction supplies (hammers, nails, levels, chisels, trowels)
  • sewing equipment
  • spices (Thrak puts Nibenese lemongrass on everything he makes)
  • smoking supplies/firestarting kits (pipes, tobacco… I was just reading the Athasian Emporium and it statted out a bunch of narcotics too)
  • compasses, star charts
  • first aid supplies (bandages, gauze, tweezers)
  • tents
  • I like that you mentioned toys. It’s not talked about much, but Athasian societies would have to devote a lot of resources to child-rearing, and I assume their society tends toward large families (the only comfort in a brutal world, and historically common). So cradles, swaddles, baby slings, playpens, walkers (apparently these were common in medieval societies)… I guess they used worm-eaten wood dust as baby powder.
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