03 4 / 2012
Research Survey - Please Participate!
Do you consider yourself a crafter? For one of my classes I had to design an online survey. This research survey will also help my master’s thesis research. If you consider yourself a crafter please participate! Thank you for your help! (AND it’s only 10 questions.)
Please reblog!
Thanks
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31 3 / 2012
‘Knitting a revolution, one stitch at a time’
This is an incredible example of craftivism. Originally distributed by Reuters on March 3, 2012, this video shows a group of Syrian rebels crafting their own rebel flags and uniforms in resistance to the Assad regime. Here we see craft as a tool of resistance and as a tool of empowerment.
text transcript via jpost.com:
Activists defy the Syrian government by making banners, placards and uniforms to support anti-government rebels.
Activists in a village near Homs are helping Syrian rebels by sewing military uniforms and rebel flags.
Some have faced their own losses during protests against President Bashar Assad.
“My brother is injured and I will keep on working and participate in the protests and with the Free Syrian Army to get rid of this corrupt regime, and we will not fall back and will not kneel or surrender,” says one woman.
They are left with few choices.
“We expect that they will bomb us anytime and will destroy our houses, but we are not frightened and will not leave our houses, because we have no where else to go to,” another woman adds.
They fear once Assad’s forces clear rebel strongholds in Homs they will be next. One soldier from the opposition Free Syria army offers assurances.
A Free Syria Army soldier says, “Homs will not fall, as long as there is a soul and a drop of blood in it, we will continue fighting, we will stay in our path until we get rid of the regime.”
The UN says Syrian forces have killed more than 7,500 civilians since the uprising began last March.
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28 3 / 2012
Knit the City pix: Wheeeee! Knit the City are in The Times newspaper today! @knitthecity #knitthecitypix #yarnstorm #whodunnknitpix http://instagr.am/p/IuKTQcBcjv/
(Source: knitthecity)
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27 3 / 2012
War Knitting
“During World War II, everyone in Owosso, Michigan was involved on the home front, even grade-school kids like me who were asked to knit afghans for wounded soldiers.
All of us had relatives in the service and realized we were part of the war effort. I was 10 years old in 1943 and really enjoyed the knitting. I think I did it for a while before I drifter onto other things.
This photograph appeared in the Owosso Argus Press along with an article about our efforts at Emerson Elementary School in my hometown, west of Flint.”
- Richard Mathewson, Norman, Oklahoma. Full Article Here
Also there’s a great read from ‘Meditations of a Knitter’ where she addresses WWI & WWII homefront efforts. “In any war there’s going to be propaganda. Looking back at some of the homefront propaganda from WWI and WWII you have to see dignity in it.” This is something I’ve thought a lot about. As much as I am against war, when I’ve watched documentaries about the American homefront I’ve always felt a sense of pride followed by sadness that people have generally lost their willingness to make any sacrifices for the good of others.
It’s undeniable that we live in a very ME centered world. We take so much for granted (myself included) on a daily basis. How bad does it have to get before we finally work together again? When we return to civility? Yes, our past is tainted with racism, sexism and homophobia. We’ve come so far (and still have so far to go). But why does it feel like in other ways we’ve completely regressed? How can we bridge our dying sense of community with our modern ideas of equality? Can craft play a role?
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27 3 / 2012
Women could not serve in the army (during World War I), but they could help the war effort in other ways. This poster urged women to knit socks for soldiers, even though textile factories made soldiers’ uniforms. Efforts like these had more to do with generating feelings of patriotism than with actually supplying the troops.
Poster by: American National Red Cross
Text via: http://www.learnnc.org
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13 3 / 2012
yes. =p
Omg.
(via riotprrl)
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07 3 / 2012
London 2012: mystery knitter leaves Olympics-themed knitted figures on pier
via http://www.telegraph.co.uk:
A mystery knitter has left a huge Olympics-themed knitted work on the pier in Saltburn-by-the-Sea near Teesside.
Pictures: Richard Rayner / North News & Pictures
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