Contents
Part I Tradition and Aspiration
1 Invisible Menders: The Convict Women Who Made the Rajah Quilt 3
Lara Nicholls
2 Learning from Craft: Tin-Craft Production, Domestic Space and Street Identities in Hanoi 15
Dinh Quoc Phuong
3 Custodians of Culture in the Global Market: Working with Indonesia's Indigenous Weavers 33
William Ingram
Part II Cross-Cultural Traditions
4 Macassan Influence on Arnhem Land Material Culture 51
Louise Hamby
Part III The Woven
5 In Her Hands: Bilum Weaving in Papua New Guinea 77
Susan Cochrane
6 Craft, Culture and Sustainable Development-Weaving Their Way to Self-sufficiency 89
Elizabeth Oley
7 Traditional Bedouin al-Sadu Weaving and New Solutions 103
Keireine Canavan
Part IV The Carved
8 Learning to Carve Wood in the Trobriand Islands, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea 117
Harry Beran
Part V The Fired
9 Firing Sculpture and Its Public Interactions 135
Azam Fallah Azizi and Morteza Mirgholami
Part VI The Educational-Research and Development
10 Contextual Learning-Craft and Design in Technical and Vocational Education 153
Pernille Askerud and Barbara Adler
11 Educating in the Crafts: Role of Research Organisations in Continuing Craft Traditions 173
Mitraja Bais and Mansi Sathyanarayan Rao
12 Crafting Higher Education in the UK: Tensions Between Policy and Practice 183
Lauren England
13 The Impact of Creative Learning on Young People's Wellbeing 195
Maurice Galton and Ros McLellan
14 Learning Crafts Through Educational Research Projects-Reflection from Thailand 213
Disaya Chudasri
Part VII The Digital
15 Towards Digital Craft 227
Paul Loh
16 Chiang Mai Digital Craft: A Case Study of Craftsmanship's Knowledge Representation Using Digital Content Technology 245
P. Sureephong, S. Chernbumroong, and B. Tolmar
Part VIII The Digital and a Dying Art
17 The Fading Art of Handwriting: The Choice Between Computer Typing and Handwriting 263
Stefan Popenici
Part IX Craft, Creativity and Community
18 Magic Stitch 275
Susie Vickery
Part X The Aesthetic
19 MATTER MUTTER: An Antipodean Artist's Report on the Role of Matter in Capturing an Idea 303
Alex Selenitsch
20 Encountering Fragments 313
Rose Woodcock
21 Crafting Resistance: Talismanic Memory Maps 325
Gabrielle Bates
Part XI The Markets
22 Head and Hands in the Cloud-Cooperative Models for Global Trade to Be Found in Traditional Crafts 341
Kevin Murray
23 Transferring Traditional Art and Skills into Contemporary Craft as a Sustainable Business in Nepal. A Case of Mithila Art, Allo Fibre and Dhaka Weaving 351
Chandra Prasad Kachhipati
24 Exhibiting and Creating a Design Identity for Your Craft 365
Megan Atkins
Part XII Conclusion
25 A Global Dialectic 375
Lindy Joubert