Craft calls to craft everywhere

Shedding The Shackles: Women’s Empowerment Through Craft by Lynne Stein

Lynne Stein’s beautiful book celebrates female crafts from across the globe, from the exuberant embroidery of Rajasthan to the beautiful beadwork of Yoruba tribeswoman and a crocheted coral reef in Australia. Forming collectives and co-operatives, the women crafters have been emotionally and economically sustained by their painstaking, inspired

creations. Using local materials, inventive methods of recycling and combining age-old methods with a modern sensibility, the weavers, potters, knitters and artists are reviving folk art and the charm of the handmade while creating jobs, fair wages and a route out of poverty. This is an entirely inspiring endeavour. (Herbert Press)