The Punk of Craft
I life to think of traditional crafting as the Led Zeppelin of the art world’. accomplished, talented. but boringly staid. Modern crafters, on the other hand. are life The Rarnones. the 1970s. punk band who distilled years of rock history down to three exuberant chords, Clocking in at a mere two minutes. their energy-packed songs did more for this teenager’s soul than the entire canon of classic rack put together. The Ramon es made music that was not only fun (”Hey! Ho! Let’s go!”) but also whimsical. noisy. and not at all polished — a breakneck combo of words and riffs. Most importantly, their music was so simple. yet so addictive. it said loudly: “You can do it!”
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This ethic of Do It Yourself is the baseline of modern crafting. If the point of the American Dream is a two-car garage and saving up to buy the Pottery Barn couch, chair, and dining room table. all arranged to match the catalog, then modern crafting is twisted daydream. its perfect your popcorn stitch is or that your table setting is in shades of matching beige with hand-appliquéd napkins and a hundred-dollar bouquet in its center. There is no hand-wringing about making everything from scratch in a June Cleaver-style hissy-fit of perfection.
Maybe it’s just the fact that. like its punk prede¬cessors, modern crafting encourages you to exist in the world of the tactile, to embrace an activity other than making money — and to rock the house.
money — and to rock the house. perfect your popcorn stitch is or that your table setting is in shades of matching beige with hand-appliquéd napkins and a hundred-dollar bouquet in its center. Them is no hand-wringing about making everything from scratch in a June Cleaver-style hissy-fit of perfection.
Maybe it’s just the fact that. like its punk prede¬cessors, modern crafting encourages you to exist in the world of the tactile, to embrace an activity other than making money — and to rock the house. perfect your popcorn stitch is or that your table setting is in shades of matching beige with hand-appliquéd napkins and a hundred-dollar bouquet in its center. Thcm is no hand-wringing about making everything from scratch in a June Cleaver-style hissy-fit of perfection. Maybe it’s just the fact that. like its punk
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Craft Magazine : Vol 2
by : Jean Railla [modern crafting]
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