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Journal of Modern Craft 2.3

By Editor | Published: December 6, 2009

Third issue of 2009
Editorial Introduction
Articles
A Ghost in the Machine Age: The Westerwald Stoneware Industry and German Design Reform, 1900–1914 by Freyja Hartzell
A Catalan Werkstätte? Arts and Crafts Schools between Modernisme and Noucentisme by Jordi Falgàs
Early Expressions of Anthroposophical Design in America: The Infuence of Rudolf Steiner and Fritz Westhoff on Wharton Esherick by Roberta [...]

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Keeping memory at hand

By LyciaTrouton | Published: November 19, 2009

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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Performing Civic Craftivism

By LyciaTrouton | Published: November 10, 2009

A 2009 heightened anxiety (about the self’s connection with ‘the other’ and ‘the material world’) has driven us to Craftivism. Ever since the advent of the mid-1990s information age when ‘the screen’ took precedence over real-time relations and touch, Western conceptual craftivists have rebelled against ‘time management’ and ‘efficient production’. “The hand-crafted artefact” is a [...]

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