Why would you want to make handmade items? Why a nature walk is important for a simple life Then I hope that I might be able to help you discover what craft you want to master. Or if you desire to be able to call yourself a craftsperson. And I consider my mother and myself one of these craftspeople, and I hope you might consider yourself one too. Which makes them far more beautiful than their sweatshop counterparts.Ĭraftspeople have a passion for their craft that shines through the objects they create. They are all unique, and they were all made with love. The same goes for the trousers, shirts and many dresses they own that were all sewn by their grandmother. Not because of a lack of imperfections, but rather thanks to their imperfections, since they show their grandmother’s hand in them. They love their colourful knitted woollen socks and find them beautiful. A good chunk of our socks have been knit by my mother, and my daughters call them grandma socks because of that. In our family, we all own multiple handmade clothes. These imperfections are not a sign of defects but rather a sign of the love and dedication that went into the creation of an object. The grooves that the fingers made on an earthenware bowl, the imperfect stitching on a handsewn dress, or the rough carvings of a whittled wooden horse. Rather, the beauty comes from the imperfections. The beauty comes more often than not, not from the perfection. I think we all see the beauty of the simple and handmade. There is beauty in handmade items that mass-produced ones miss So that we all might feel empowered and live a life filled with freedom, that is more self-sufficient than would otherwise be the case.
Like my parents, passed on their skills and crafts to me, and I’m passing them on to my children. We need to master them for ourselves and pass them on to our children. Because we gain a pride and confidence when we see what our hands can create.īut if we want these old-fashioned crafts and vintage skills to be able to pass through the ages. So no matter how much longer it takes to create something handmade, we prefer it over its premade counterpart. Because its beauty partly comes from the love that was instilled into it while it was made. The kind of beauty that cannot be replicated by machines. When we create something with our own two hands, we find that it has a deep beauty. But I think that the practising of these crafts are vitally important to human beings.įor in the crafting of beautiful handmade items, you will find a joyfulness and a confidence that you can’t get any other way. The crafting of handmade items is seen as something time consuming and unnecessary. But nowadays, precious few still practice these skills of old that were once so widely spread. The old-fashioned crafts were once commonplace, and most people had mastered at least one of these vintage skills. Share Why craft something if you can buy it?
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