Craft and Home
Making, Place, and the Domestic
Craft and Home
Making, Place, and the Domestic
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Drawing together craft scholars and contemporary practitioners, this volume presents historical, critical and practice-based perspectives at the intersection of craft and home, addressing issues of making, dwelling, place, gender, domesticity, sustainability, and decolonization. The notions of craft and home are expansive, contingent on issues of labour, land and identity, with meaning that shifts according to historical, cultural, socio-economic and gendered context.
In this transdisciplinary study an international line-up of scholars and makers investigate the intersection of craft and home and shed new light on understudied craft practices: from prison quilting and cooking as craft to unheimlich craft and the role of stitching in place-based environmental awareness. The case studies discussed are global, spanning India, Mexico, Ireland, France, the UK, Canada, the US, and Turkey, and chapters cover diverse craft practices such as quilting, ceramics, crochet, beading, food production, jewellery, weaving, woodworking, and action-figure modelling. Each section is introduced by a 'Kitchen Table' conversation with craft practitioners, richly illustrated with images of their work, bringing practice into dialogue with research and theory.
Enriching critical craft studies and exploring themes including ecologies of the home, kinship and community, and agency and identity beyond common perceptions, this volume will be a valuable resource for students, researchers and practitioners alike.
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Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction, Elaine Cheasley Paterson and Molly-Claire Gillett (both of Concordia University, Canada)
Part I. Ecologies and Geographies of Home
Chapter 1. The Textile 'Terroir' of Home: Theories and Practices of Sustainable and Slow Stitch Celebrating the St. Lawrence River, Kathleen Vaughan (Concordia University, Canada)
Chapter 2. Crafting fluidity. Valentine Schlegel's interior sculptures (1955-1965), Anna Hoddé (Concordia University, Canada)
Chapter 3. Thoughts in Progress: “Between Surface and Absorption”, Ilga Leimanis (London College of Communication, UK)
Chapter 4. Crafting a Haunted Floriography: Ghosts Demand, Morris Fox (Concordia University, Canada)
Part II: Crafting Kinship and Community
in practice, Mea Bissett, Selina Latour (NSCAD University, Canada) and Skot Deeming (Independent Scholar)
Chapter 5. Collecting, Dissecting, Mending, and Mourning: 365 Grams, Rebecca Strzelec (University of Michigan, USA)
Chapter 6. Clothkits and the Intersections of Design and Domesticity, Nicola Miles (University of Brighton, UK)
Chapter 7. Crochet, Domesticated: A Collaborative Auto-Ethnography, Pragya Sharma (University of Brighton, UK)
Chapter 8. Crafting at and of Home during COVID-19 in Türkiye: Craft Making as Homemaking, Pinar Melis Yelsali Parmaksiz (Bahçesehir University, Turkey)
Lunch Break, Swaneige Bertrand
Part III. Making and Critiquing Hospitality
in practice, Kerri-Lynn Reeves (MacEwan University, Canada) and Patrick Moskwa (Independent Scholar, Canada)
Chapter 9. Making Home, Heritage, and Craft at the Campbell Folk School, Kelley Totten (University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
Chapter 10. Relational Communication in a Partial List of Craftsmen and Handicraft Groups in the United States (1947), Danielle Burke (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Chapter 11. Voices: Case Studies in Creating a More Inclusive Home for Craft, Denis Longchamps (Independent Scholar, Canada)
Chapter 12. The Colonial Imperative in French Art Deco Design: Considering the Impact of Histories and Museum Displays on Contemporary Designers and Consumers, Julie Hollenbach (NSCAD University, Canada)
Part IV. Unhomely Homes and Uncanny Homemaking
in practice, Rosa Borras (Independent Scholar, Mexico) and Pots Uniques (Independent Scholar, Canada)
Chapter 13. Hidden in Plain Sight: Witches, Alter-ability, and the Tools of the Craft, Sandra Huber (Concordia University, Canada)
Chapter 14. Unhomely Making, Juliette MacDonald (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Chapter 15. Home is Where the Heart Is: The Unheimlich in Elisabeth Perrault's Domestic Installations, Julia Skelly (McGill University, Canada)
Chapter 16. Home and Away: Stitching at Kingston's Prison for Women, Johanna Amos (Queen's University, Canada)
Index
Product details
| Published | 21 Jan 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 288 |
| ISBN | 9781350515598 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Visual Arts |
| Illustrations | 70 colour illus |
| Series | Critical Craft Studies |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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