#thinking about making

"It’s a popular myth that old skills are dying out. You only have to look around to see high levels of craft skill still practised in everyday making and manufacturing – but much goes unrecognised, thanks to the bad press machines are sometimes given as an aid to manufacture. (...) These days the notion of craft skill aided by labour-saving machinery is common in all sorts of specialised trades. This is part of what I call ‘real craft’: real in the sense that it’s undertaken by highly skilled people in many fields in the everyday world; not in a fine art studio, nor at a heritage site, nor as a hobby or pastime. (...)"