#artisans

Like, I'm a knitter, and before I started I couldn't tell a knit fabric from a crocheted one, and I mostly would appreciate pretty color choices and overall patterns. But now I drool over perfectly uniform stockinette or a good stretchy bind off, and don't even start me on neat floats on the back of fair isle!

Quilters will talk about the binding and stitch choice on a finished quilt, ceramics artists will gush over how a glaze turned out, embroiderers will sigh at perfectly smooth satin stitch, and a woodworker can spot a good join from a mile away.

This is Europe's only native palm tree, which grows on the Mediterranean coast. We have used it for millennia to weave baskets and vegetal cloth. The whole process —picking, drying, weaving— takes months. This is a job that has been done mostly by women, and which is still done nowadays, mostly in Southern Catalonia (the Terres de l'Ebre region) and the East of Mallorca island.

Like all artisans, this job suffers a lot of difficulties nowadays and many people struggle to make a living with it anymore, since now lots of stores prefer to sell cheaper and lower quality products made in exploited third-world countries or with industrial processes.

Sure! I ended doing both Lindar versions hehe I'm a fan of the original ps1 versions, they were a big part of my childhood <3

Artisans, synthetic piss, (Vinyl/LP, Digital album), MICL LP009, Music Information Centre Lithuania, 2025