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Branding handmade
The handmade movement is in need of brand recognition. I wonder why more people don’t buy handmade craft, and why it isn’t a more widely-acknowledged concept. It’s clearly because the handmade movement doesn’t have a multi-gazillion dollar ad budget or a hot shot PR consultant. Craft is fighting against the entire mass-produced, mass-marketed industry for attention [...]
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Get together
basket by sylvia lehman This post was inspired by the crafty social Tara attended last week at Hello Bluebird. It got me thinking about the importance of getting together. My mother-in-law Sylvia Eisenbise Lehman is a basket-maker and paper artist. She’s part of a little informal group self-dubbed ‘Art Study Group‘ with friends Sandy Gilpin [...]
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Make it your quilt
quilt by the silly boo dilly via flickr There’s a saying around craft circles: If you’re a quilter quilt. Sounds pretty obvious, right? It’s meant to stir up questions about what the creative process includes. In the medium of clothing for example: Can it start with a blank t-shirt made a world away or does [...]
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What’s in a name?
print by dutchdoor It’s human nature. We like to name, define and label everything around us. We place things in neat little boxes and label them so we can remember them for the future. The same silly desire to label is true for craft. Traditional. Contemporary. Fine. Indie. Heritage. They all are meant to define [...]
