Research Resources

Below you can see a list of references to get you started as well as links to connected research projects, craft organisation websites as well as a listing of the full bibliography that underpins our literature review. 

This page is a living work in progress. More resources and links will be added during the life of this project.

Quick Look: Top Ten References 

1. Albrow, M.1997. Travelling Beyond Local Cultures: Socioscapes in a Global City in John Eade (ed.) Living the Global City. London: Routledge
   
2. Beaulieu A, 2004, "Mediating Ethnography: Objectivity and the Making of Ethnography of the Internet, " Social Epistemology, 18(2), 139 - 163.
   
3. Christensen D E, 2011, ""Look at us now!": Scrapbooking, regimes of value, and the risks of (auto)ethnography", Journal of American Folklore, 124(493), 175 - 210.
   
4. Dissanayake, E. 2000. Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began. University of Washington Press: Seattle
   
5. Dormer, Peter. Ed. 1997. The Culture of Craft. Manchester University Press: Manchester
   
6. Fisher, C. 1997. “ ‘I Bought my First Saw with My Maternity Benefit’ Craft production in west Wales and the home as the space of (re)production” In Contested Countryside Cultures: otherness, marginialisation and rurality. Eds P. Cloke and J. Little. Routledge: London, pp232-251
   
7. Greenhalgh P, 2010, The History of Craft. In: Lees-Maffei G., Houze R. (eds.) The Design History Reader. (Oxford: Berg).
   
8. Miller, D (2011) Tales from Facebook. Cambridge: Polity.
   
9. Rosenberg J and Garofalo G, 1998, "Riot Grrrl: Revolutions from within", Signs, 23(3), 809-841.
10. Wesch, M. 2009. YouTube and You: Experiences of Self-Awareness in the Context Collapse of the Recording Webcam. In Explorations in Media Ecology 8(2):19-34.

The full bibliography can be downloaded here.

Key Websites

• Deirdre Nelson: Textile artist.
• Hanna McAndrew: Slipware potter.
• Kate Davies Designs: Knitwear designer, writer and craft historian.
• Laura-Louse Broad: Craftsman and designer.
• Lynn Bailey: Artist and printmaker.
• Mr X Stitch: Contemporary embroidery and needle craft.
• Prick Your Finger: Textile art collective, online yarn shop and resource space/gallery.
• Slugs on the Refrigerator: Crochet-wear designer, photographer and writer.
• Two Red Trees: Specially selected contemporary British design for sale.

Related Projects

• AHRC Connecting Craft and Communities’ Research Network 
  
• AHRC Connected Communities Programme
• AHRC Complexity and the Creative Economy Project

Other Useful Scholars/Websites

Ellen Dissanayake: Evolutionary biologist and art/craft theorist. Excellent links to a large selection of downloadable PDFs of her publications.