just let me weave

They are familiar things but I am a stranger now

“Let’s calm down.”

By Tove Jansson

Knitting, 2021 - by Joseph Ford, English

this is one of a [series] and they're all fantastic

joseph ford is the photographer and the knitter who made the pieces is nina dodd (ninadoddknits.com)

I'm so fucking tired of every book on William Morris or Arts & Crafts Movement in general being like: "William Morris said he's a socialist and yet he ran his design business successfully! Curious! Wasn't it kinda hypocritical to criticise society but also live in society?? Hmm! A lot to think about!"

And they are always soo smug about it. Like he didn't realize that everyone has to still participate in capitalism to survive? Like if you read the things he actually said and wrote he didn't talk about how frustrated he was about the material reality of capitalism, which he had to live in? And like that being a major reason why he in the first place was anti-capitalist????

William Morris: "I have got to understand thoroughly the manner of work under which the Art of the Middle Ages was done, and that is the only manner of work which can turn out popular art, only to discover that it is impossible to work in that manner in this profit-grinding society. (..) Except with a small part of the more artistic side of the work, I could not do anything (or at least but little) to give this pleasure to the workmen, because I should have had to change their method of work so utterly that I should have disqualified them from earning their living elsewhere."

(Basically he's saying here "it sucks that under capitalism you need division of labour and you can't just practice traditional craftsmanship, because workers need to make a profit to be able to eat and pay their rent.")

Art historians: William Morris, a socialist, made money?? William Morris, a socialist, owned a business????? Quite a paradox we have here

Urelated to that but since I'm already William-Morris-posting... Not to armchair diagnose a dead man, but does this sound like someone who doesn't have ADHD?

"Morris wished to do everything himself - he had moved rapidly through the more gentlemanly occupations of architect and painter before deciding to master as many of the crafts as possible."

"He believed in a universal capacity to learn, that anyone could be trained to do anything, and so achieve the rich, satisfying life he felt ought to be made universally available."

A man who doesn't have ADHD: If everyone would just learn all the crafts and skills possible then everyone would be happy and satisfield with their lives, because certainly everyone has the obsessive desire to learn everything at the same time and preferrably right now. And this is why we need socialism.

Boulders in now abandoned Dogtown, MA. In the 1930s Roger Babson commissioned unemployed stonecutters to engrave 35 boulders with “inspirational” phrases after the announcement of the stock market crash that would lead to the Great Depression.

Source: Dixie's Cowboy Ranch

a psychologist who responds to everything you tell them with, “that’s a lot like that one part in neon genesis evangelion-“

'india gate: bamboo canes + chains of marigolds - government sunder nursery, new delhi, india, 1994' in nils-udo: art in nature (2002)

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