arts and crafts
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Product details
- ISBN 9781474259583
- Weight: 820g
- Dimensions: 192 x 250mm
- Publication Date: 11 Jan 2024
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Craft Communities addresses the social groups, old and new, which have developed around craft production and consumption, exploring the social and cultural impact of contemporary practices of making. Addressing a wide range of crafting practice, from yarnbombs to Shetlands shawls, brassware to paper crafting, in a variety of regional and national contexts, the contributors consider how craft practices operate collectively in the home, communities, businesses, workshops, schools, social enterprises, and online. It further identifies how social media has emerged as a key driver of the 'Third Wave' of craft. From Etsy to Instagram, Twitter to Pinterest, online communities of the handmade are changing the way people buy and sell, make and meet.
Nicola Thomas is Associate Professor in Cultural Historical Geography at the University of Exeter, UK.
Susan Luckman is Professor in Cultural Studies at the University of South Australia, Australia.
