A Stitch in Time: Changing Cultural Constructions of Craft and Mending

Over the course of the twentieth century, the availability of cheap, mass-produced fashion has contributed to a decline in everyday domestic mending skills. Indeed, as mass-manufactured goods have become cheaper for the global population it has become normative consumer behaviour to dispose of any i...

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Main Author: Anna König
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linköping University Electronic Press 2013-12-01
Series:Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research
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Online Access:https://journal.ep.liu.se/test3212/index.php/CU/article/view/2079