Crafts, Textile, and Design

Museology's engagement with craft and textile practices has expanded well beyond object preservation to examine how making things by hand carries political, therapeutic, and communal weight. Researchers trace how movements like craftivism mobilize knitting, sewing, and other handicrafts as forms of feminist activism and sustainability advocacy, asking what it means when domestic skills historically assigned to women become tools for public dissent. A central tension in current scholarship concerns whether DIY culture genuinely challenges industrial consumption and gender norms or quietly reinforces them under a progressive aesthetic. Equally open is the question of how institutions can collect and interpret ephemeral, participatory craft projects without flattening the social processes that gave them meaning in the first place.

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CraftivismHandicraftFeminismWell-beingSustainabilityActivism