Craft as Art

Craft as Art

Are we regressing? We as humans in a society consumed by bigger, better, faster, stronger more powerful things have finally realised we are losing what has made us human in the first place- what makes us, us and the personalised human touch.

Craft is emerging no longer with the stigma of just being something bored, uneducated housewives just sat around doing in quilting bees, knitting circles and craft corners while their husbands in the role of the breadwinner brought home the bacon.

But at what cost are we discovering this lost art form? Unfortunately for us, we have become unskilled and all the skills of knitting, sewing, crocheting which were for people of our Grandmother’s generation second nature. Who can wistfully remember our Granny sitting there teaching us how to knit while patiently telling us that, “one day you will be able to make a nice sweater, dear,” while secretly thinking that it would be so much easier to head off to the shops and buy a be...