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 [...]
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 [...]
How a folk needlecraft tradition seeks to repair recent political violence…
Northern Ireland Linen Handkerchief Trade
Regarding Northern Ireland’s post-conflict shared future it befits my purposes here to share some historic links about trade unionism and cross-community social relations. The first Belfast female linen trade unionist was Saidie Patterson (1906 – 1985) who worked in the mills [...]
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