Before There Was Etsy There Were Folk Schools
Since the industrial revolution, craft revivals come in waves, the Arts and Crafts movement of the 1880s, the Southern Craft revival of the 1930s, the back to the land movement of the 1970s, and the modern DIY movement that began in the 2000s. I’m fascinated by the cyclical nature of this phenomena of remembering, reinvention, and …