CONTENTS Preface Paul Greenhalgh vii Acknowledgements viii Foreword Neil Forrest ix Introduction Sandra Alfoldy xiv SECTION ONE: CULTURAL REDUNDANCY OR THE GENRE UNDER THREAT Introduction Sandra Alfoldy 3 Chapter 1 Bruce Metcalf Replacing the Myth of Modernism 4 Chapter 2 Larry Shiner The Fate of Craft 33 Chapter 3 David Brian Howard Making Space for Clay?: Ceramics, 47 Regionalism, and Postmodernism in Regina, Saskatchewan SECTION Two: GLOBAL CRAFT Introduction Sandra Alfoldy 61 Chapter 4 Grace CochraneAustralia and New Zealand: Design 63 and the Handmade Chapter 5 John PotvinLost in Translation?: Giorgio Armani and theTextualities of Touch83 SECTION THREE: CRAFTS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY Introduction Sandra Alfoldy 101 Chapter 6 Beverly Lemire Redressing the History of the 102 Clothing Trade: Ready-made Apparel, Guilds, and Women Outworkers, c.1650-1800 Chapter 7 Joseph McBrinn Handmade Identity: Grafting Design 121 in Ireland from Partition to the Troubles Chapter 8 B. Lynne Milgram Entangled Technologies: Recrafting 137 Social Practice in Piha Textile Production in the Central Philippines SECTION FOUR: INVENTION OF TRADITION: CRAFT AND UTOPIAN IDEALS Introduction Sandra Alfoldy 157 Chapter 9 Janice Helland Making it Irish: The Politics of Embroidery in Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland 158 Chapter 10 Elizabeth dimming Pure Magic: The Power of Tradition in Scottish Arts and Crafts 173 Chapter 11 Alia Myzelev Ukrainian Craft Revival: From Craft to Avant-Garde, from Folk to National 191 SECTION FIVE: CRAFT, THE SENSES, AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES Introduction Sandra Alfoldy 215 Chapter 12 David Howes Sensory Basket Weaving 101 216 Chapter 13 Tanya Harrod Otherwise Unobtainable: The Applied Arts and the Politics and Poetics of Digital Technology 225 Chapter 14 Love Jonsson Rethinking Dichotomies: Crafts and the Digital 240 Chapter 15 Mike Press Handmade Futures: The Emerging 249 Role of Craft Knowledge in Our Digital Culture Notes on Contributors 267 Index 271