The Hobby Princess craft manifesto investigates the question 'why craft?'
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Thoughts from the Bus Stop
Caterina.net
I am yer Grammar
Folkology
BoingBoing
Edge Perspectives
Other sites talk about the Craft 2.0 and the Slow Craft movements.
There is a commen thread throughout that technology, whilst not the primary cause, is certainly an enabler of the movement.
J Meredith Warner talks about the way in which knitting can metaphorically knit communities together. The internet allows these communities to be knit in new ways with threads from far-reaching people and places uniting. Is the internet creating a new folk art/craft for digital natives?
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