{"id":938,"date":"2009-06-29T09:03:57","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T23:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=938"},"modified":"2009-06-29T09:15:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-28T23:15:02","slug":"saving-traditional-crafts-and-records-of-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2009\/06\/29\/saving-traditional-crafts-and-records-of-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving traditional crafts and records of them"},"content":{"rendered":"

On FriendFeed today Amy<\/a> today pointed to a British House of Commons debate about trying to save traditional crafts<\/a>. I rather fear it is a lost cause. The upsurge in crafting and making in the last few years driven by the web is great in many respects, but I suspect probably can do little to help the traditional crafting skills of the sort referred to in the debate, as economies of scale are lined up against them.<\/p>\n

But the article did remind me of some lovely images of traditional craftsmen by printmaker Stanley Anderson<\/a>. Here are three:<\/p>\n

Coppicing:<\/p>\n

\"Coppicing\"<\/p>\n

Chairmaking:<\/p>\n

\"chairmaking\"<\/p>\n

Basket weaving:
\n\"basket\"<\/a><\/p>\n

These are from Country Bazaar<\/a>, a 1970’s book about country crafts.\u00a0 (I’m not sure about copyright here – please let me know if it is an issue). You can find a few more if you google, for instance The Violin Maker<\/a>, but wouldn’t it be cool if it were possible to see the whole series?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On FriendFeed today Amy today pointed to a British House of Commons debate about trying to save traditional crafts. I rather fear it is a lost cause. The upsurge in crafting and making in the last few years driven by the web is great in many respects, but I suspect probably can do little to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[184,193,20,33],"tags":[1388,1371,1043,1042],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craft","category-illustration","category-make","category-theatre","tag-craft","tag-make","tag-stanley-anderson","tag-traditional-craft"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-f8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":944,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}