Building blocks

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PROMETHEUS: ...they knew nothing of making brick-knitted houses the sun warms, nor how to work in wood. What’s more, I gave them numbering, chief of all the stratagems. And the painstaking, putting together of letters...

Bricks, wood beams, numbers, letters - given the original meaning of "art", all of these elements enable artistic expressions: buildings, ships, business records, memoirs, etc. He also uses "knitted", which indicates an important element — thread — that allows us to make clothes, a yet another free monoid of material culture.