Histories of Craft Work
This not only raised awareness of a particular form of labor commodity, but was an entry point into counter globalization activism.
What is anti-sweatshop activism?
This complicates this gendered binary of cyberfeminism.
What is DIY craft culture?
These groups exemplify the activist components of craft culture.
What is the S/he Collective, Revolutionary Knitting Circle, and Anarchist Knitting Mob?
Weaving as labor took place in a space specifically designated for women and textile production:
What is the gynaeceum?
Arguably the most famous spinner.
Who is Penelope (The Odyssey)?
One of the first major industries.
What is textiles?
The first attempt to automate processes (aka software) was based on this.
What is the Jacquard loom?
One of the more denigrated forms of crafting that's often limited and devalued yet capable of being used for hidden purposes.
What is quilting?
Practices usually defined as the “domestic arts”
What is knitting, crocheting, scrapbooking, quilting, embroidery, sewing, and doll-making?
A blog dedicated to knitters that warned readers about the professionalism of knitting somewhere that coincides with business.
What is Etherknitter?
Finish the quote: “The organizing cell for the first phase of feminism was the..."
What is "... the sewing circle, the quilting group, or the ladies’ charity organization."?
Relegated to interstitial spaces (outsider art, trivial sewing circles, devalued labor) craft culture found shelter for ____.
What is persistence?
An exhibition that used quilting to convey Canadian seniors’ “stories, ideas, and concerns” (including health care, education for their grandchildren, wage cuts and job loss)
What is 'Crying the Blues'?
Known for their work on popular culture, while dealing mostly with scriptural, spatial, and culinary forms that notes that certain tactics (such as camouflage) are not limited to human beings and traced these operations to nonhuman forms.
Who is Michel De Certeau?
These spaces functioned to allow women to swap stories, skills, knowledge, and strategies while allowing them to speak about the more oppressive aspects of the social home. These closeknit groups were often ridiculed as ___.
What are "gossiping circles"?
Some examples of information materialism include:
What are hidden maps and codes that were embedded in quilts designed to convey escape routes in the Underground Railroad, family crests, Native American quilt-narratives, espionage messages, and encrypted love notes, chatting, life stories, and amateur production?
Crafting is a social movement and at times a form of direct action that involves multiple layers. Some examples of these direct actions include:
Influencing policies (reproductive rights), raise funds and awareness (Craft the Vote + Afghans for Afghans), cultural interventions (street art, stencil art, graffiti), and street-based direct-action politics (counter globalization protest knit-ins).
A whole series of knowledges and skills associated with women (aka folk knowledges or witchcraft).
What is cunningcraft?
The nineteenth-century aristocrat, mathematician, and collaborator with Charles Babbage on an analog computer that was obsessed with tapestries and the idea of weaving encrypted messages into scarves.
Who is Ada Lovelace?