We had compulsory art and music, and then in gym class there was this utterly bizarre compulsory unit on square-dancing that it turns out dates from Henry Ford somehow and it's absolutely bonkers.

And yeah, we have wood shop, metal shop, home ec, that stuff, but they're usually really brief and only in middle school. (My time in wood shop is immortalized in a scar across one thumb from where a bandsaw gave me a fantastic body mod that it took several stitches to repair.)

There's nowhere I can think of in the US where you could go locally and commission someone to embroider you something by hand. I mean, Etsy. But the idea of having that in a craft store-- I mean, tailors do alterations, but I've never even done that once in my whole life. The idea that people just-- organizedly know how to do handwork-- it's kind of outside my experience.