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The Craftivist Yarn Bomber as Critic/Carer

The craft of questions, the craft of stories, the craft of the hands – all these are the making of something and that something is soul.
Post-trauma therapist and novelist Clarissa Pinkola Estes

My Launceston Craftivist-Action Day Objects
I have on my university office bookshelf a few pre-loved Craftivist items that I pinched from Launceston’s Yarn Bombing Day [...]

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Tasmanian Renegade Craftivism let loose in the public realm: Crochet Yarn Bombing and Knitted Graffiti

Now that I am based primarily in Tasmania, it has been a pleasure to visit the cosmopolitan “mainland”, over the past few days. For example, I have just had a teatime chat with Dr. Dorothy Jones (b. New Zealand, based South of Sydney NSW; Jones writes on the links between postcolonial novels, needlework; she was [...]

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