As the Zoom calls continue to loom – too everyday now to even joke about – does craft have the power to keep us connected? Or, what’s more, does craft have the power to model new forms of connection that offer respite from the ‘always on’ socio-economic demands of late-capitalist life?
… Editorial #11 – Care, Craft, and Community
‘C19 Text Talk’ is a hand-embroidered diary, comprised of 50 text works, made over a period of 100 days since the enforcement of the UK lockdown on the 23rd March 2020.
… Emily Grimble, C19 Text Talk (2020)
Rubina Singh explores the links between crafting, family history, place and rebellion…
… Crafting Resistance and Resilience
Stitches in Time began as an experiment to see if sewing could start conversations between strangers – Lottie Whalen interviewed the team to find out more…
… Sewing Social Histories with Stitches in Time
An exchange of gifts strikes up a conversation about showing care through the handmade object
… Crafting an Education: The Handmade Gift as Talisman for our Times
Quilting points display the impact community projects can have
… ‘Some Strange Comfort’: the 2012 Holloway Quilt
Amy E. Elkins reviews handiwork by Sara Baume
… Book Review: handiwork’s Crafting of the New Global Elegy
After stumbling on an exhibition in Madrid, Roberta Quance discovers the affective resonance of crochet and the legacies of lacemaking…
… In the (Spider’s) Web (on Berta López)
How the mysterious and enigmatic artist Madge Gill (1882-1961) defied all expectations of being a working class woman in the early 20th century.
… Madge Gill: Creativity with No Boundaries
Ceramics and pottery making are empowering practices, simple yet uplifting way of intervening in everyday life and leaving behind a trace of our touch.
… Editorial 9: Ceramics
Clay Clay Ceramics is a ceramics collective, featuring three young female artists; Alice Clarke, Madeline Denny-Gelder and Samantha Warden, whose binding quality lies within their interest in how ceramic artworks behave in a contemporary fine art setting.
… Clay Clay Ceramics: a Collective in an Age of Social Distancing
I could connect to people whom I a priori had nothing in common with, simply because we were potters. We spoke the same language, the language of clay, which went beyond the borders within which we had been born.
… A Life Journey Through Clay
Queer(ing) Craft is guest edited by Daniel Fountain.
… Editorial 8: Queer(ing) Craft
Matt Gale’s work examines systems and relationships, exploring unusual or unexpected pairings of partners as a means to reference the queerness of the natural world – that actually nature is far less binary than we might imagine.
… Practice-Based: On Smocking, Science and Sex
I stand in cold stacks. My hands run over the pale green boxes scored with pencil marks. I rummage. A syllabus, a letter and tangled endings. An under-stairs cupboard filled with pornography. S&M dyke night flyers with tea in the living room. Email trails: reaching out, and toward something…
… Practice-Based: Quilting the Lesbian Archive, Sarah-Joy Ford
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