Craft Communities

Introduction - Craft Communites: Continuity and discontinuity across time and place, Susan Luckman.


The commercial entanglements of craft communities
1. Do it yourself, with me: Workshops as a site of interaction between professional and amateur makers, Amy Twigger Holroyd.
2. 'Out of time and out of money': How handicraft tourism micro-entrepreneurs in Greece negotiate gender and economic roles in an economic crisis, Fiona Bakas
3. The Pleasures of Feminine Paper Crafting, Kathleen McCollough
4. Commodification, collection and community: Negotiating craft consumption and craft capitalism, Richard Yarwood

Craft communities in place
5. Innovation or preservation?: Craft's post-capitalist identity crisis, Joanna Mann
6. A place-based approach to regional fiber economies, Oona Morrow
7. Walking as sisters: The social dimension of group-based craft production in the Peruvian Andes, Kathrin Forstner
8. Sri Lankan artistic brassware industry: A manifestation of local community values, Sri Rohana Rathnayake and Carl Grodach
9. Recognising craft and creativity as political governance innovation: Activating people and place through civic activism and creative enterprise, Clare Mouat and Bronwyn Adams
10. Make, do and mend: A patchwork economy of UK crafting for health, Sarah Desmarais

Activist craft communities
11. Better together: Co-creating living heritage, community assets and enterprise, Fiona Hackney, Deirdre Figueiredo and Mary Loveday
12. Material girls: The intangible and tangible of women's weaving groups in Australia, Kirsten McGavin and Hannah Swee
13. Crafting employment for marginalized women: The remaking of social enterprise, Mia Hunt
14. The craft of reuse: Making communities at charity secondhand shops, Melisa Duque and Aneta Podkalicka
15. Crafting asylum: Text, textiles and asylum seekers in detention, Margaret Mayhew

Craft communities online
16. Disposition and taste: DIY craft's star system, cultural intermediaries and the influence of Etsy, Jacqueline Wallace
17. New geographies of domesticity: Work, space and community in the virtual arts and crafts, Shannon Black, Chloe Fox Miller and Deborah Leslie
18. Media practices and social arrangements on DaWanda: Reflections on the appropriation of a social commerce platform, Dagmar Hoffmann and Wolfgang Reißmann

List of Figures
List of Contributors