Women and craft / edited by Gillian Elinor, Su Richardson, Sue Scott, Angharad Thomas, Kate Walker.
Publisher: London : Virago, 1987Description: 191 pages : illustrations, genealogical table, portraits ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780860685401
- 0860685403
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| 745.501 ADA Thinking through craft / | 745.501 ADA The invention of craft / | 745.501 BUS Extra/ordinary : craft and contemporary art / | 745.501 ELI Women and craft / | 745.501 FOU Crafted with pride : queer craft and activism in contemporary Britain / | 745.501 FRA On craftsmanship : towards a new Bauhaus / | 745.501 KNE Expert: understanding the path to mastery |
Includes bibliographical references (pp.188-191).
PART ONE LABOUR OF LOVE: DOMESTIC CRAFTWORK
Our family heritage: a conversation between two sisters / Jenny Larvin and Sue Pooley
Infinite taking of pains: the 'sides to middle' world of women / Caroline and Margaret Blount
Countless hours: Grandmother's crochet / Sue Scott
Starting with rag rugs: the aesthetic of survival / Agnes and Kate Walker
Housewives, leisure crafts and ideology: de-skilling in consumer craft / Pen Dalton
Crocheted strategies: a new audience for women's work / Su Richardson talks to Gaie Davidson
Craft of carnival / Elaine Thomas
Knitting performances / Shirley Cameron
Peace banner conversations: discussions from a sewing bee / Alison, Bridget, Daphne, Eileen and Michele, recorded by Su Richardson
PART TWO ARTY CRAFT AND CRAFTY ART: THE HIERARCHY OF CREATIVITY
Sewing as a woman's art / June Freeman
Craft as art / Kate Russell and Pennina Barnett
Potters of the 1920s: contemporary criticism / Moira Vincentelli
Refuge in enamel: from fine art ro hard craft / Pauline Barrie
Professions to craftwork: architecture to stained glass; Academia to liberation ; Teaching to jewellery-making / Angela Hinton ; Jeanette Honan ; Nesta Pugh
Against the grain: learning a man's craft / Cindy Harris
Of biddles and spars / June Statham
PART THREE MAKING IT WORK: CRAFT ON THE MARKET
Craft fairs / Angharad Thomas
The wider last of shoemaking / Clare Rendell
Cobbling / Eira Benton
Hidden worlds: homeworking on the machine / Sara Bowman
All right on the night: theatrical outworkers / Sally Baxendale
Artist craftswomen between the wars / Barley Roscoe
Embroiderers at home: women of the Sixty-Two Group / Sarah Bowman
Money and success: markets for jewellery / Jane Kennard
The bitter fruit of success: creating a craft centre / Jenni Hobbs
Co-operative craft on Arran: spinning, weaving and knitting / Lynn Ross
The masterless way: weaving an active resistance / Faith Gillespie