Spoons in Exchange: Carving Intimacies
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2022
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With the role of the internet becoming increasingly important to craft learning and craft community-making, my research on spoon swapping in a spoon-carving community points to how social relationships impact craft learning and the sustaining of a craft practice. More emphasis should be placed on craft learning in present day popular craft movements. My paper shows how spoon carvers learn from each other in hon-hierarchical structures like copying each other’s spoons in spoon swaps, carving online, and in social craft gatherings.
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Craft, Object Exchange, Amateur Craft, Craft Collecting, Wood Carving, Spoons, Spoon Swapping, Digital Craft, Community Exchange, Online Craft, Object Theory, Intimacy