> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Author:: [[Susan Luckman]] > Reference:: Luckman, S., & Thomas, N. (2023). Craft Communities. Bloomsbury Publishing. > Date:: 2023 > Tags:: #warp > WeftLinks:: [[Social value of craft]] > Claim:: [[Claim - Craft is a collective activity that forges trust and belonging]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary > This edited volume contains many case studies of how craft helps build communities. ### Contents #### Part I The commercial entanglements of craft communities 11 - 1 Do-it-yourself, with me: Workshops as a site of interaction between professional and amateur makers Amy Twigger Holroyd 13 - 2 ‘Out of time and out of money’: How handicraft tourism micro-entrepreneurs in Greece attain sustainability in an economic crisis Fiona Eva Bakas 22 - 3 The pleasures of feminine paper crafting Kathleen McCollough 31 - 4 Commodification, collection and community: Negotiating craft consumption and craft capitalism Richard Yarwood 40 #### Part II Craft communities in place 51 - 5 Innovation or preservation? Craft’s post-capitalist identity crisis Joanna Mann 53 - 6 A place-based approach to regional fibre economies Oona Morrow 62 - 7 Walking as sisters: The social dimension of group-based craft production in the Peruvian Andes Kathrin Forstner 71 - 8 Sri Lankan artistic brassware industry: A manifestation of local community values Sri Rohana Rathnayake and Carl Grodach 79 - 9 Recognizing craft and creativity as political governance innovation: Activating people and place through civic activism and creative enterprise Clare Mouat and Bronwyn Adams 94 - 10 Make, do and mend: A patchwork economy of UK crafting for health Sarah Desmarais 105 #### Part III Activist craft communities 117 - 11 Better together: Co-creating living heritage, community assets and enterprise Fiona Hackney, Deirdre Figueiredo and Mary Loveday 119 - 12 Material girls: The intangible and tangible of women’s weaving groups in Australia Kirsten McGavin and Hannah Swee 132 - 13 Crafting employment for marginalized women: The remaking of social enterprise Mia Hunt 140 - 14 The craft of reuse: Making communities at charity second-hand shops Melisa Duque and Aneta Podkalicka 154 - 15 Crafting asylum: Text, textiles and asylum seekers in detention Margaret Mayhew 165 Part IV Craft communities online 179 - 16 Disposition and taste: DIY craft’s star system, cultural intermediaries and the influence of Etsy Jacqueline Wallace 181 - 17 New geographies of domesticity: Work, space and community in the virtual arts and crafts Shannon Black, Chloe Fox Miller and Deborah Leslie 191 - 18 Media practices and social arrangements on DaWanda: Reflections on the appropriation of a social commerce platform Dagmar Hoffmann and Wolfgang Reißmann 202