Craft introductions -- Craft interruptions -- Craft networks -- Craft terroir -- Craft delivery -- Craft tracings -- Craft sharing -- Craft obsession

Explains how anyone, even those who don't think they are 'creative' can confidently choose colours and patterns to create bold, easy-to-make quilts, perfect for today's busy craftspeople.

Sloppy Craft: Postdisciplinarity and the Crafts brings together leading international artists and critics to explore the possibilities and limitations of the idea of 'sloppy craft' – craft that is messy or unfinished looking in its execution or appearance, or both. The contributors address 'sloppiness' in contemporary art and craft practices including painting, weaving, sewing and ceramics, consider the importance of traditional concepts of skill, and the implications of sloppiness for a new 21st century emphasis on inter- and postdisciplinarity, as well as for activist, performance, queer and Aboriginal practices. In addition to critical essays, the book includes a 'conversation' section in which contemporary artists and practitioners discuss challenges and opportunities of 'sloppy craft' in their practice and teaching, and an afterword by Glenn Adamson.

Widely regarded the greatest composer of the 20th century, Igor Stravinsky was central to the development of modernism in art. In this revealing volume, the first of two, Walsh follows Stravinsky from his birth in 1882 to 1934.

Have you ever craved a magnetism that draws people in? Desired a confidence that leaves men speechless? Deep down, every woman possesses the potential to be a femme fatale. But what exactly is a femme fatale, and how can you cultivate that alluring power within yourself? This book is your ultimate guide to unlocking the secrets of the femme fatale. We'll delve beyond the stereotype of the manipulative seductress and explore the true essence of this powerful archetype. It's about embracing your inner strength, mastering the art of seduction, and rewriting the narrative on femininity. Are you ready to: • Unleash your dark feminine energy: Society often demonizes this power, but the femme fatale knows how to harness it for good. We'll explore the concept of dark femininity, shedding light on its misunderstood potential and teaching you how to tap into its strength. • Craft an enigmatic presence: Become a captivating mystery. This book will guide you in cultivating an aura of intrigue, mastering the art of subtle hints, and radiating a magnetism that leaves a lasting impression. • Become a master of seduction: Seduction is more than just physical attraction. It's a dance of power and desire. Learn the secrets of the femme fatale's strategic tactics, from the art of detachment to decoding different male personalities. • Make him obsessed (but maybe not): This book unveils the psychology behind obsession and equips you with powerful techniques to leave a lasting impression. Whether you seek revenge, a playful game, or simply to understand the power you hold, this knowledge is yours to wield. • Heal from heartbreak and reclaim your power: Moving on from a heartbreak can be empowering. We'll explore strategies for self-care, emotional mastery, and ultimately, rediscovering your inner strength. This book is more than just a guide to attracting men. It's a journey of self-discovery and transformation. You'll embark on a path of self-reflection, self-compassion, and building unshakeable confidence. Forget the damsel in distress. Embrace the femme fatale. Within these pages, you'll discover a treasure trove of secrets, including: • The three ultimate rules of the femme fatale • How to cultivate a signature style that reflects your inner power • Practical strategies for mastering body language and nonverbal communication • Tailored seduction tactics for nine different male personality types • The power of affirmations and cultivating a positive mindset This knowledge is powerful. Use it wisely. Become the Femme Fatale. Start your transformation today.

The rhetoric of contemporary food production and consumption with a focus on social boundaries The rhetoric of food is more than just words about food, and food is more than just edible matter. Cookery: Food Rhetorics and Social Production explores how food mediates both rhetorical influence and material life through the overlapping concepts of invention and production. The classical canon of rhetorical invention entails the process of discovering one’s persuasive appeals, whereas the contemporary landscape of agricultural production touches virtually everyone on the planet. Together, rhetoric and food shape the boundaries of shared living. The essays in this volume probe the many ways that food informs contemporary social life through its mediation of bodies—human and extra-human alike—in the forms of intoxication, addiction, estrangement, identification, repulsion, and eroticism. Our bodies, in turn, shape the boundaries of food through research, technology, cultural trends, and, of course, by talking about it. Each chapter explores food’s persuasive nature through a unique prism that includes intoxication, dirt, “food porn,” strange foods, and political “invisibility.” Each case offers new insights about the relations between rhetorical influence and embodied practice through food. As a whole Cookery articulates new ways of viewing food’s powers of persuasion, as well as the inherent role of persuasion in agricultural production. The purpose of Cookery, then, is to demonstrate the deep rhetoricity of our modern industrial food system through critical examinations of concepts, practices, and tendencies endemic to this system. Food has become an essential topic for discussions concerned with the larger social dynamics of production, distribution, access, reception, consumption, influence, and the fraught question of choice. These questions about food and rhetoric are equally questions about the assumptions, values, and practices of contemporary public life.

Craft is a process-oriented practice that takes seriously the relationships between bodies—both human and nonhuman—and makes apparent how these relationships are mired in and informed by power structures. Making Matters introduces craft agency, a feminist vision of new materialist rhetorics that enables scholars to identify how power circulates and sometimes stagnates within assemblages of actors and provides tools to rectify that uneven distribution. To recast new materialist rhetorics as inherently crafty, Leigh Gruwell historicizes and locates the concept of craft both within rhetorical history as well as in the disciplinary history of writing studies. Her investigation centers on three specific case studies: craftivism, the fibercraft website Ravelry, and the 2017 Women’s March. These instances all highlight how a material, ecological understanding of rhetorical agency can enact political change. Craft agency models how we humans might work with and alongside things—nonhuman, sometimes digital, sometimes material—to create more equitable relationships. Making Matters argues that craft is a useful starting point for addressing criticisms of new materialist rhetorics not only because doing so places rhetorical action as a product of complex relationships between a network of human and nonhuman actors, but also because it does so with an explicitly activist agenda that positions the body itself as a material interface.