Cat, meet pigeons

Okay then: nobody has posted yet today so your Friendly Neighborhood Thursday Editor has but one choice -- throw out a topic for discussion/thought.

Himself and I were in Stockholm for the Bank Holiday weekend and found ourselves in the Historica Museet one afternoon. The folk art exhibition, you will not be surprised to learn, is where I spent most of my time. A number of contemporary items like a dress refashioned out of mens’ shirts and embroidered samplers with cheeky quotes on traditional fabric were right at the end after oodles of lovely preserved pieces from hundreds of years ago. Several quotes writ large on the walls of the exhibition caught my eye and as a result got themselves written down, like this one from a Jogge Sundqvist:

‘Genuine craft is a threat to commercialism’.

Not everything was in English so I am not one hundred percent sure of his/her original context but let’s just put in the context of our happy little band here at RFC and think on this one, shall we? 

I don't agree, BTW. There are too many people who would never pick up a needle due to time, talent or indoctrinational -- by that I mean how you were raised to view crafts/'women's work/handmade over mass-produced -- constraints. I don't think think the big brands or shops that sell cheap clothes cheap are going to lose any sleep over those of us who sew and or refashion for ourselves but....

IWOM: EOD