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       What We Learned From a Year of Crafting
   DIR By: Penny
       Date: June 25, 2022, 10:58 pm
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       What We Learned From a Year of Crafting
       Making things — masks, quilts, ceramics, mandalas — was a
       practical and sometimes political response to the moment.
       By Steven Kurutz
       May 13, 2021
       Necessity is the mother of invention, and at the start of the
       pandemic, the thing everyone needed was masks. To help keep
       people safe, an army of home sewers banded together last spring
       to make face coverings and other personal protective equipment
       for health care workers, family members and strangers.
       Stuck at home without the diversions of socializing, travel or
       dining out, the crafting continued. Americans knitted, crocheted
       and wove through the lockdown. They made hand-tufted rugs, paper
       orchids, wooden chess sets, tiny shrines and botanical mandalas.
       Sewing machines got hauled out of closets, dusted off and used
       to create, among other things, jackets out of vintage quilts,
       which spurred a fashion trend. And if the crafts themselves look
       modest and homespun, the money they are generating is not: A
       booming trade on Etsy more than doubled the company’s revenues
       to a record $1.7 billion in 2020, according to its financial
       reports.
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