Technology and Plurality of Cultures at the Renaissance Faire

This weekend I went to the Renaissance Faire at Greenbluff. While I was there, I noticed there was an amalgamation of cultures (separate from the obvious modern vs renaissance). Everywhere I went, every booth I entered, there was a collaboration from different countries in the technologies or styles that they were using. For instance, the musicians would say, "This ballad is from France" - then "This is an English song." They had songs and melodies from all over. I was curious to see if this hybridity extended elsewhere, so I started asking questions. There was an obvious fascination with technology, where the blacksmith said that he could now be more efficient and it took less work to make things - like horseshoes and nails. There was a woman spinning thread who said that her spinning wheel was the best money could buy, so not many of the underclass would be able to use it, but the middle class worker or the upper class lady would be able to find it. She said that the wheel was originally from China and she was very happy to have something that made spinning easier. The lady next to the spinning wheel was making thread by hand, which she said was much more tedious, but she couldn't afford a wheel for herself. They were both using sheep's wool, not dyed or altered.
There was a booth talking about weapons and armor and how they were changing because of what they had found in foreign lands, there was a carpenter using new tools, there were people playing chess, which was originally played in India but moved around quite a lot. There were all sorts of new things that people at the Renaissance Faire were using, from all over the world. This showed a growing sense of plurality, but also of ownership over those ideas. They took them and made them their own. Later in history, the English would start taking over the very countries they had been taking inventions from. Here, there was a fascination with the unknown, with technology that would make life easier. This idea permeated throughout their culture and influenced their literature as well, because it was so evident in society. Such as mentioning different inventions like spurs or plows.