http://journalofmoderncraft.com/responses/what%e2%80%99s-the-role-of-skill-in-the-d-i-y-community Academic research on craft Sun, 20 May 2012 15:36:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://journalofmoderncraft.com/responses/what%e2%80%99s-the-role-of-skill-in-the-d-i-y-community/comment-page-1#comment-1237 Editor Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:28:21 +0000 http://journalofmoderncraft.com/?p=267#comment-1237 Thanks for sharing your experience of Handmade Nation, Faythe. It's interesting how you reflect on the overall sense of empowerment that pervades the DIY movement, yet your own high personal standards for work. Quality can obviously be an important motivation. But related to Lycia's posts, there seems a division in DIY between the indie crafts as found in fairs, and the craft activist performances which seem more collective in nature. Clearly they are sympathetic, but I would imagine they represent two different kinds of demographics. We await with great interest your thoughts on the made up of the DIY movement. Thanks for sharing your experience of Handmade Nation, Faythe. It’s interesting how you reflect on the overall sense of empowerment that pervades the DIY movement, yet your own high personal standards for work. Quality can obviously be an important motivation.
But related to Lycia’s posts, there seems a division in DIY between the indie crafts as found in fairs, and the craft activist performances which seem more collective in nature. Clearly they are sympathetic, but I would imagine they represent two different kinds of demographics.
We await with great interest your thoughts on the made up of the DIY movement.

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