Hawes, Kate2022-10-262022-10-262022http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12667/66With 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.CraftObject ExchangeAmateur CraftCraft CollectingWood CarvingSpoonsSpoon SwappingDigital CraftCommunity ExchangeOnline CraftObject TheoryIntimacyThesis