I'm trying to be elegant in choosing the words, but what they did was gossiping basically.

That is what I thought when you used all those fancy words 😆😆😆

...there was a time when men and women did everything, or most of the work themselves, from growing sheep for wool, then spinning yarn, then weaving whatever was needed

And the funny thing is, the time you talk about is kinda like gazllion times long period - more an era - to our modern times where we let others create anything we want, for us, in modern ways, with machines and all that. Soon and even the things we do as humans today, will be outsourced to yet other machines again, Ai and Robots. In such a short time, humankind transformed the manual world into a 100% digital world, or better said, perhaps a more artificial world.

...egg painting...

The only thing fro all you mentioned, I did myself when I was young. Every Easter I painted together with my mother, the eggs, left them overnight before my parents used to hide them. My brother and I went egg hunting the next day so we could fill our bellies on Eastern day.