Inventions (Anime)

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Retaining her memories from her past life as Urano, Myne has recreated a number of items, dishes, and other products from her old world, mostly for her own comfort. Many are based on what she learned from her previous mother.

Fashion

Hair Ornament

Tuuli's baptism hairpin

Claiming that Tuuli would be cuter with a "hair ornament", Myne used the lace tatting technique to make flowers out of thread. The flowers are then sewed together by their ends and attached to a wooden pin.

Once Myne enters a business relationship with Benno she, Lutz and her family start to make these for winter handywork, though a little later Myne sells Benno and his Gilberta Company the rights to produce hair ornaments of his own, along with teaching his sister Corinna how to make them. The hairsticks are a great success and sell very well, even spreading to the nobility.

There is a wide variety of hair ornaments available for every level of society. Versions meant for poor people tend to be bought as finished products, usually made from comparetively thick and rough thread and featuring an assortment of smaller flowers, very reminiscent of the very first ornament Myne made for her sister's baptism.
The higher the quality of the materials and elaborate the designs, the higher the price climbs.

Hairstick

A thin wooden stick made from whittling wood. Myne asks Tuuli for a stick similar to Tuuli's doll's legs to tie up her hair, which she makes for Myne.

Rinsham

Rinsham, originally named "Simple All-in-One Shampoo," is a homemade shampoo made with plant-based oils, herbs for aroma, salt, and hot water to dissolve the salt. The simple all-in-one shampoo turns out to be valuable, as it makes the hair smooth and shiny, and the effects especially draw the attention of women. The first version Myne produced was made from meryl oil and once they were out of season she made some from rio oil.

If the oil does not contain enough scrub - usually because of being filtered through too fine a cloth - one can add other things like even more salt or poudered peels of certain fruits. Using pure oil and adding hand-selected scrub will lead to higher-quality rinsham, since it gives the producer precise control over which ingredient are in it, but it comes with an additional step in the production process and the acompanying time, effort and cost.

Culinary

See Culinary

Books and Writing

Clay Tablets

Inspired by the Mesopotamian civilization, Myne shaped clay into tablets to write records on them. However, like the imitation papyrus attempt, it failed, the first time due to Fey and his friends stepping on them, the second time due to the gate closing, the third time due to a rainstorm, and the fourth time due to failure to bake them in the kiln.

Faux-Papyrus

Papyrus is made from the fibers of a stalk and weaved like a piece of cloth. Myne tried making paper imitating papyrus as her winter handiwork, but she gave up.

Mokkan

Mokkan from the Huang civilization, are pieces of wooden slips. Originally, Myne planned to write on them with ink, but she didn't have any ink, so she used soot mixed with water as a substitute, but that was a failure. Effa used her first mokkans as firewood later, resulting in Myne getting frustrated and collapsing.

Soot Pencil

Also sometimes shortened to Soot Pen, this invention was made by Myne as a primitive substitude for Earth's pencils.
They are created by mixing soot with wet clay and letting the mixture dry in the sun. Once they are completely dried, they can be used more or less like the core of a pencil from Earth. Since they lack the wooden or plastic outer shell of their Earth counterparts it is necessary to wrap some kind of cloth around it if you want to avoid getting your hands dirty.

Compared to Earth's pencils, soot pencils are very soft and brittle so you have to be very careful when writing. Putting too much pressure on them will result in letters being broken and unreadable.

Diptych and Stylus

Fran's diptych and stylus.

The diptych is the equivalent to a notepad. It is made of two wooden carved-in boards connected with metal rings on one side. The boards are hand-sized and filled with wax inside them to note down things using a stylus.

The stylus a piece of metal formed like a pen which has a pointed end on one end and a flat-shaped on the other end. The pointed end is used to write on the diptych's wax whereas the flat end is used to erase the writing. It comes with a hook, resemling earth's pens, so that it can be attached to the metal rings of the diptych.

Plant Paper

See Plant Paper.

Methods

Myne Decimal System

Used to sort books into an order in a library. There are 10 categories and several sub-categories to classify the books into. It is based on the Nippon Decimal System.

0. General Works
1. Philosophy
2. History
3. Social Science
4. Natural Science
5. Technology/Engineering
6. Industry/Commerce
7. Art
8. Language
9. Literature

Salting Out

Salting out is used to reduce the stench and create higher quality oil for candles etc. Salt is put into the cooking water and left simmering while removing emerging impurities.

Written Math

In the beginning Myne was unable to do math using a calculator. She uses her slate and solves problems using the methods taught on earth. Mark is intrigued and learned a bit from Myne.

Utility

Candles

Reduced Smell Animal Fat Candles

These are made like regular animal fat candles, but with the method of salting out the ingredients it is possible to produce much higher quality oil and thus make candles that produce considerbly less bad smell. While still not as pleasant as candles made from bee-wax, they are much cheaper to produce, making them a good alternative for poorer families.

Scented Candles

By adding various herbs to the candles while making them, they spread a pleasant scent when lit. This can be done with both animal fat and bee-wax candles. If the herbs are put on the outside or near enough the outside to show through a thin layer of wax, the herbs can also make the candle look nicer.

Chopsticks

Chopsticks are made of bamboo and can be used for a variety of tasks. Among other things they can be used to handle hot food or stir the sticky mass out of which paper is made. They are equivalent to chopsticks from earth.

Crochet Hook

Myne asks her father Gunther to make a stick with a hook end out of wood so that she could make Tuuli's hair ornament.
After they aquire the rights to producing hairsticks themselves, the Gilberta Company orders varients of these made out of metal to allow for even finer work.

Additional References

• @Wiki - 本好きの下剋上 有志まとめwiki@5ch 創作物一覧 (in Japanese)
• Yūzen Dyeing on Wikipedia.org