#craeft

[cottagefaeries]

today i started reading this book i purchased on a visit to a museum (o˘◡˘o)

[plasticgardenicons]

Against a rising tide of automation and increasing digital complexity, we are becoming further divorced from the very thing that defines us: we are makers, crafters of things.  Where our lives once comprised an almost unbroken chain of movements and actions as we interacted physically with the material requirements of our existence, today we stare at screens and we press buttons.  When we made things, we accumulated a certain kind of knowledge, we had an awareness and an understanding of how materials worked and how the human form has evolved to create from them.  With the severance from this ability we’re in danger of losing touch with a knowledge base that allows us to convert raw materials into useful objects, a hand-eye-head-heart-body co-ordination that furnishes us with a meaningful understanding of the materiality of our world.  Some people call this knowledge know-how to distinguish it from formal knowledge, the knowledge of principals. But you could call it craeft. It is a wisdom that furnishes the practitioner with a certain power.

Alexander Langlands 

Craeft, An Inquiry into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts 

[universitybookstore]

A genuinely interesting exploration of a subject increasingly preoccupying lots of otherwise thoroughly modern readers, Craeft: An Inquiry into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional Crafts.  New from Norton.

[danbensen]

Cræft by Alex Langlands

The author's descriptions of hay-making, wall-building, and hedge-maintenance were the best part of the book, but I was disappointed by the lack of stories about working on the documentary set and in the dig-site transect. Maybe Langlands was afraid of being sued?

Read the full review and more in my June Newsletter: https://danielmbensen.substack.com/p/uncle-cheech

[abwatt]

Books: Craeft

I’ve just about finished reading this book by Alexander Langlands called Craeft, about traditional crafts and their meanings and origins in Britain. The book begins with a meditation or reflection on the Anglo-Saxon word Craeft, from which we derive the modern word “craft” meaning something like artisanry or Maker work. But for Langlands, as for King Alfred the Great of Wessex ten centuries…

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[portersqbooks]

Craeft by Alexander Langlands is out in paperback on January 15

[loubeeferguson-blog]

There’s going to be some reading happening. #excited😍 #makers #craeft @loubeeferguson (at Meacham, Saskatchewan)

[theamericanscholar-blog]

If you’re a creature of the 21st century, odds are you’ve stumbled upon the nascent DIY movement. From baking our bread to stitching our own clothes to raising back yard chickens and growing our own vegetables—even restoring our own furniture—the past few decades have seen a resurgence in our appreciation for crafts, right down to craft beer. But have you ever thatched your own roof with grasses that you grew in your own back yard? Or spent hours researching the secret behind making the best kind of haystack? Alexander Langlands has, and in his new book, Cræft, he takes DIY to a whole new level. Part how-to, part memoir, the book gets at what it means to make things with your own hands, and how this experience connects us both to the past and to our present sense of place. Listen to the full podcast here.