The Floating Web

Thinking Craft, Crafting Thought

Vol 12 no 2, 1992

A special issue which in arguing the old art/ craft debate is proposing usable theories for practice. What is the future for craft? Re-evaluating 'women's work', craft, science and technology. Reviews

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Author: Ms Dorothy Jones, feature

For centuries now, textiles and the skills required in their creation - spinning, weaving, embroidery, sewing, quilting - have been considered women's work, occupying them indoors while men engaged in more serious activities like warfare.

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Article Index

Articles in this issue

Book review: The Crafts Come of Age
Feature: 4 Jewellery Co-operatives: Gray Street Workshop
Feature: 4 Jewellery Co-operatives: Ipso Factory Company
Feature: 4 Jewellery Co-operatives: On Staying in the Black: Fingers
Feature: 4 Jewellery Co-operatives: On Staying in the Black: Fluxus
Feature: After the Art/Craft debate: Critical Writing into the 1990s
Feature: Craft, Science and the Natural: An Introduction
Feature: Design Visions: International Exchange: Time for a Stocktake
Feature: Distant Lives/ Shared Voices
Feature: From Italowie to Chambers Gorge - A New Tapestry
Feature: Futurology...Crafts...
Feature: Futurology...Crafts...
Feature: Futurology...Crafts...
Feature: Futurology...Crafts...
Feature: Jill Smith: Artist/ Designer in Industry
Feature: Making a Living: The Jam Factory
Feature: Marketing from the Top End
Feature: NSW Tafe: A Different Approach to Ceramics
Feature: Parables of Criticism
Feature: Screenprinting the Tiwi Way: An Element of Spontaneity
Feature: Semiotically Speaking: A Craftperson's View
Feature: The Archaeological Metaphor: A Personal Excavation
Feature: The Floating Web
Feature: The Hermannsburg Potters
Feature: The Problem of Orthodoxy in Contemporary Glass
Feature: The Reflections of a Taxidermist
Feature: The Watch, the Pen and the Biro
Feature: The Western Way - Linney's, Argenta and Others
Feature: Tim Burns - Paintings and Drawings
Feature: Touching Things Lightly: The Furniture of Kevin Perkins
Feature: Toward a Typology of Small Objects
Feature: Two Countries, One Weave?
Feature: Why Craftwork Does Not Compute
Feature: Yurundiali - Reasons for Optimism
Review: ...But Never by Chance..., Skin and From Women
Review: Anne Newmarch - Superimpositions
Review: Contemporary Gipsland Artists
Review: Hossein Valamanesh Recent Work
Review: Tasdance in Silk