I have a big brother who would make dolls' houses and playhouses and furniture out of wood. He was the one who taught me from such a young age that you could just make something. The physical act of gluing something together was really formative for me.
First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.
I don't know how to knit.
Ever since I was young I loved making things and being part of the design process.
When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.
I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects that people want to buy.
Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches).
To have much learning, to be skillful in handicraft, well-trained in discipline, and to be of good speech -- this is the greatest blessing.
Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?
I like the countryside. I like chopping wood. I'd like to be a carpenter.
When I see Lemlem walking around New York City, it's just mind-boggling, because I know it came from this one man sitting and weaving this little product.
I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew.
I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.
If I want to calm down, I'll buy some fabric, get a pattern, shut myself in a room and stay there for days, really happy. And at the end of it, you get a bedspread or some curtains or something to wear - it's lovely.
From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts.
Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.
To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle.
Our guys took Shop and Advanced Shop. Shop is when you make a chair. Advanced Shop is when you paint it.
Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.' There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman. The artist is an exalted craftsman.
I'm good at embroidery. It's what I always wanted to do.... Yep, instead of whoring, I just wanted to do fancy embroidery.
My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It's the classic idea of the artistic existence.
My uncle is in the hall of fame for creating by hand some of the most intricate Indian Mardi Gras garb.
Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.
I especially remember that on All Souls Day, when so many people wanted new monuments for the graves, our whole family pitched in. I did the lettering on the stones, my brother did the carving, and my sisters put the finishing touches on them, the gold leaf and all that.
