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Posts tagged with craft
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Renate Hiller - “On Handwork”
I recently came across this video on YouTube from 2010 of Renate Hiller talking about the importance and relevance of traditional handwork today. “[T]he use of the hands is vital for the human being, for having flexibility, dexterity. In a way, the entire human being is in the hands.”
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So my mother bought me an inkle loom a few weeks ago, just as we were going into lockdown, with a hope that I would miraculously produce a Guanabana-style belt just like the ones she’d seen in Toast (bougie baby). She is an avid and talented knitter and yet, although…