Feart n Tired 🏴 on Nostr: Handmade. For many of us that means fibre crafts, which will include machines as well ...
Handmade.
For many of us that means fibre crafts, which will include machines as well as hand tools. Other Spinsters do metal and woodwork too. Anything you make really.
It's these woodwork videos that had me thinking about handmade. Matt Cremona uses machines, but cuts to final size with hand tools, removing the bulk waste only. Other makers, including Laura Kampf, use far more machines and less hand precision cuts.
But even some like this guy using exclusively machines, is putting a lot of design effort into making jigs and setting things up to automate a process like dove tails.
So where is the handmade line, is it solely on mass produced and the operator not making a whole item, just one process? Or does it mean that your quilt or dress on a sewing machine isn't handmade. Is it still handmade if you programmed your machine to do the quilting or embroidery and then just clamped it in place? Is it you being the decision maker and hand behind the clamping and programming that makes it handmade?
Olivier Gomas https://youtu.be/fH0TSmlfb0w (long video, much machinery, quite obsessive design details, but impressive nonetheless)
Matt doing dovetails https://youtu.be/pBXz1BStCUo
For many of us that means fibre crafts, which will include machines as well as hand tools. Other Spinsters do metal and woodwork too. Anything you make really.
It's these woodwork videos that had me thinking about handmade. Matt Cremona uses machines, but cuts to final size with hand tools, removing the bulk waste only. Other makers, including Laura Kampf, use far more machines and less hand precision cuts.
But even some like this guy using exclusively machines, is putting a lot of design effort into making jigs and setting things up to automate a process like dove tails.
So where is the handmade line, is it solely on mass produced and the operator not making a whole item, just one process? Or does it mean that your quilt or dress on a sewing machine isn't handmade. Is it still handmade if you programmed your machine to do the quilting or embroidery and then just clamped it in place? Is it you being the decision maker and hand behind the clamping and programming that makes it handmade?
Olivier Gomas https://youtu.be/fH0TSmlfb0w (long video, much machinery, quite obsessive design details, but impressive nonetheless)
Matt doing dovetails https://youtu.be/pBXz1BStCUo