Craft Economies
Author: Thomas, Nicola; Luckman, Susan
ISBN: 9781350353404
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 09 Mar 2023
Pages: 248 Format: Paperback / softback
Craft Economies provides a wide-ranging exploration of contemporary craft production, situating practices of amateur and professional making within a wider creative economy. Contributors address a diverse range of practices, sites and forms of making in a wide range of regional and national contexts, from floristry to ceramics and from crochet to coding. The volume considers the role of digital practices of making and the impact of the maker's movement as part of larger trends around customization, on-demand production, and the possibilities of 3D printing and digital manufacturing.
ISBN: 9781350353404
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 09 Mar 2023
Pages: 248 Format: Paperback / softback
Craft Economies provides a wide-ranging exploration of contemporary craft production, situating practices of amateur and professional making within a wider creative economy. Contributors address a diverse range of practices, sites and forms of making in a wide range of regional and national contexts, from floristry to ceramics and from crochet to coding. The volume considers the role of digital practices of making and the impact of the maker's movement as part of larger trends around customization, on-demand production, and the possibilities of 3D printing and digital manufacturing.
