Does true craft require the mark of only the handmade?
Most likley in 90% of cases. However I think the idea of small product runs that are created by machines and the business is a sole trader would still fall under craft. The sole trader is still most liley selling the work at stalls / markets. Doing their own packaging, marketing, tagging ect. Their hand is still being involved even if it didn’t make the product its selling.
Or does our evolving understanding of the potential use of technology mean a broadening of the concept of craftsmanship…?
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How do you as designer / craftsperson / artisan approach practice and think about practice in relation to your own work, and the broader design discourse?
How does / can materials, process, technology influence your practice?
Materials and process effect the ‘craft product’ For example I can confidently create a water colour painting in Photoshop. No one would be the wiser. My hand would of used the tablet pen to created it, yet I doubt many would call it craft. For many people that see technology as anti craft. I could sell that water colour painting as a one off and claim it was a painted made by hand (I wouldn’t actually but for example sake), but if any one realised it wasn’t an actually prodcued with water colours \their perceived value of it would dramatically decrease, even though it was made by hand?
How does the relationship between the maker & materials, and the maker with practice, challenge the notions of what textile design as a discipline is?