Brenda Dayne on Knitting as an Open Craft

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Brenday Dayne on Knitting as an Open Craft


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Podcast series on 'knitting and life'. Recommended by a reader: "should definitely be on the list because of Brenda's promotion of open culture, knowlege and knitting."


Citation

"Craft is radical. In this age of corporate-driven mass-production, the act of an individual making a useful thing is radical. The act of buying a useful thing made by an individual is radical. It is akin to living off the grid: trading outside the big box.

Craft is to shopping what slow food is to restaurants. Buying high-quality things that needn’t be replaced over time but instead may be passed on to future generations is not only old-fashioned, it is also worldchanging. Craft is slow retail, slow consumption.

When dealing with craft, there is an awareness and appreciation for where a thing came from, how it was made, what materials were used in its fashioning, and who labored over it. Through this awareness, a relationship forms between the maker and the user, narrowing the huge gap between the producer and the consumer fostered by our mass-production globalized economy. Putting a face on an object is one way in which craft is, and always has been, worldchanging." (http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/005934.html)

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See also Craftivism