Situated in the field of needlecraft, this project will look into the histories that surround handicrafts as well as their place in the past, present, and future. While the need to learn trades in the textile industry is no longer essential it is important that they are not lost to history.

The normalised mass consumption of the last century has been subject to a shift at the rise of the DIY movement in the early 2000s coming off the back of a new wave of feminism in the late 1990s. The resurgence and popularisation of handmade crafts in recent years is an outcome of the DIY and maker movement explored by the Third-wave of feminism which focused on redefining arts that had been deemed ‘domestic’ and therefore undermined by society and Second-wave feminists. Despite the wide growth and popularisation of these crafts, there are many people who relegate the skills to “pinspiration”. Something that people want to be able to do but, either because of time, cost or skill level, haven’t been able to pursue it.