Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Survival of the Cutest



I was at the yarn store today (again!) and the girl who was helping told me about this very interesting article about the handmade movement that ran in the NY Times Magazine last Sunday ....

Handmade 2.0
By ROB WALKER
What are so many crochet-hook-wielding, papermaking, silversmithing handicrafters doing online? Trying to prove that the future of shopping — and of work — is all about the past... more

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Here is another article about the booming handmade movement from USA Today:
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/life/20071213/craftyxmas_extended_online.art.htm

Marichelle said...

Thanks for the link Jee, I hope this trend sticks around for a really really long time!