Presentation about radical craft history given to Revolution is Handmade public talk

1. The Fabric of
Resistance
Political craft history and
lessons for today’s craft
movement
Rayna Fahey

2. We live, dance, sleep, work,
craft and play on
Aboriginal Land

3. Industrial revolution
• Mass shift from handmade cottage
industries to machine based manufacturing
• End to mutual-aid based subsistence
communities
• Concept of work moved out of homes and
farms and into centralised factories
• Mass unemployment in fabric and textile
based craft industries

4. Luddites
• Direct action movement
• Started with lace and hosiery
workers near Nottingham
• First attacks in 1811
• “Machine breaking” made a
capital crime in 1812
• 17 men executed under this law
• Countless men transported to
Australia