Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Craft Links

Check out these sites (and their links!) for inspiration as you work on your projects . . . .

Renegade Craft Fair
Extreme Craft
Etsy.com
Buy Handmade
Craftivism
Craftster.org
Craftzine 
Whip up
Make magazine
Instructables

Friday, January 8, 2010

This site's purpose

This site was established for the Spring 2010 section of "By Hand: The Art and Politics of Craft," an undergraduate course offered by the American Studies Program and the Department of Folklore & Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, Bloomington. The course explores how handcrafted and independently produced items are used to assert the value of people, roles, beliefs, and ideas. This site provides links to blogs in which students explore the process and personal implications of learning to make something by hand.