It’s official, craft is good for you!
New research by Dr Helen Keyes of Anglia Ruskin University this week shows the benefits of making for your health (Frontiers of Health Journal ). Of course the rest of us have known this for some time, but it’s great that the rest of the professionals are catching up. This may mean an increase in social proscribing, where craft and creativity in crochet classes and the like, are given the due they deserve, instead of the pejorative sneer that often accompanies their mention.
If you would like to read more about the benefits of making, do get your copy of Intelligent Hands. Co-written with the writer Charlotte Abrahams and yours truly, it covers all the bases about why making is good, not just for us, but for children too.
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The Red Dress at Stroud Book Festival
The Red Dress: Conversations in Stitch is the much-anticipated book documenting and celebrating The Red Dress global collaborative embroidery project and it's coming to Stroud for the Stroud Book Festival...
The Red Dress at Stroud Book Festival
The Red Dress: Conversations in Stitch is the much-anticipated book documenting and celebrating The Red Dress global collaborative embroidery project and it's coming to Stroud for the Stroud Book Festival...
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A Publishing Revolution
In the bustling world of modern publishing, where plastic-coated covers and mass production dominate, Katy Bevan is quietly revolutionising how we think about craft books. Her publishing house, Quickthorn Books, founded...
A Publishing Revolution
In the bustling world of modern publishing, where plastic-coated covers and mass production dominate, Katy Bevan is quietly revolutionising how we think about craft books. Her publishing house, Quickthorn Books, founded...
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Text + Textiles
Text and Textiles is a unique event on 26 September celebrating the powerful relationship between the written word and the world of cloth. I’ll be talking about the publishing process...
Text + Textiles
Text and Textiles is a unique event on 26 September celebrating the powerful relationship between the written word and the world of cloth. I’ll be talking about the publishing process...
