What does it mean?

[Lyf]

Would you pls explain for me the meaning of this sentence:
"The flow of industry has passed and left idle the loom in the attic, the soap kettle in the shed".
Thank you very much!

[Casiopea]

The industrial age is long gone, and with it the old way of manufacturing goods: the loom which produced clothe and the soap kettle which made soap. We're now in the technological age; we program machines to the job for us.