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I would be the phantom of that comm, posting a hundred new half-done projects, a million episode ones

The distinction between 'arts' and 'crafts' is just so much historic misogyny. There is no reason why something useful cannot be art! Particularly as communists we should work to find beauty and and actualization through the regular stuff of life.

There's no reason why a beautifully made plate you eat on each day isn't art but a plate placed in a postmodern exhibition is now magically art because of the (usually white male) artistic intent.

Traditionally "women's" work was considered crafts: quilting, weaving, spinning, sewing, clothesmaking, and so on while representational arts with less use value like painting and sculpting were mainly restricted to male artisans and deemed art.

To conclude, the art com should be expanded to include crafting particularly since it has very low activity and would not benefit from splitting with an allied (and imo overlapping) subject matter.

I am so excited about the idea of sashiko but my sewing skills in practice are still undeveloped. There is this really interesting trend of sashiko-like textiles coming from historical reproduction denim makers in japan.

e.g.: https://www.okayamadenim.com/products/pre-order-studio-dartisan-indigo-rain-kasuri-selvedge-jeans-tapered?variant=47065927123240

I wanted to buy these as a present for my BF but the sold out his size right before the paycheck I would have saved enough :/