EAN: 9781640094826

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Part memoir part cultural history A Woven World celebrates the fading crafts industries and artisans that have defined communities for generations.The desire to create is the cornerstone of civilization. But as we move into a world where machine manufacturing has nearly usurped craft Alison Hawthorne Deming resists the erasure of our shared history of handiwork with this appeal for embracing continuity and belonging in a time of destabilizing change.Sensing a need to preserve the crafts and stories of our founding communities and inspired by an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art s Costume Institute featuring Yves St. Laurent s sardine dress Deming turned to the industries of her ancestors both the dressmakers and designers in Manhattan in the nineteenth century and the fishermen on Grand Manan Island a community of 2 500 residents where the dignity of work and the bounty of the sea ruled for hundreds of years.Reweaving the fabric of those lives A Woven World gives presence on the page to the people places and practices uncovering and preserving a record of the ingenuity and dignity that comes with such work. In this way the lament becomes a song of praise and a testament to the beauty and fragility of human making.

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