> [!NOTE]+ Meta > Author:: Nasrin Himada > Reference:: Himada, N. "Things needed made", in Black, A., & Burisch, N. (Eds.). (2020). The new politics of the handmade: craft, art and design. Bloomsbury Publishing. > Date:: 2020 > Tags:: #warp > WeftLinks:: [[Disaster recovery value of craft]] > Claim:: [[Claim - Craft helps recovery from trauma]] > [!SUMMARY] Summary > Making provided prisoners of Khiam, the infamous detention camp in South Lebanon, with an antidote to the trauma of interminable confinement. ### Highlights >The prisoner’s intention is to obliterate, in a mere instant and through processes of making, the effect of confinement. >The men first tested out an orange stem:  ‘We peeled it, dried it, rubbed it against the wall, pierced the top, and managed to get a thread in’, Afif explains. Later, they found pieces of plastic from a Halweh box, that once contained a popular Middle Eastern sweet. Whereas Neeman describes another use:  ‘We broke them into small bits, rubbed them against the wall to thin down to half a centimetre. We sewed with that.’ There were many trials and errors before perfecting a functional needle that didn’t ruin clothing. >Craft emerges out of the immediacy of experience as each political prisoner encounters the trauma and violence of confinement.