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Guerrilla kindness & other acts of creative resistance : making a better world through craftivism / Sayraphim Lothian.

Summary:

"Artist, scholar, activist, and YouTube art teacher Sayraphim Lothian gives you an introduction to the art of craftivism and provides a brief history of creative resistance. In her first-ever tutorial book on craftivism, master craftivist Sayraphim shows you how to make and use various crafts for political and social protest purposes including embroidery, baking, stenciling, decoupage, knitting and crocheting, stamping and much more."--Back cover

Record details

ISBN: 1633537404
ISBN: 9781633537408
Physical Description: 234 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Publisher: Coral Gables, FL : Mango Publishing Group, [2018]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword / Betsy Greer -- Introduction -- Guerrilla kindness : Guerrilla kindness felt cupcakes ; You are so very beautiful ; The (Secret) Toy Society ; Message in a bottle -- Knitting and crochet : Knitted heart ; Knitted protest dolls ; Crochet granny bunting ; Yarnbombs -- Cross stitch and embroidery : Cross stitch ; Embroidery on reclaimed doilies -- Sewing : Protest banners ; Pennant ; Soft sculpture bunting -- Quilting : Scrappy quilt ; Suit of hearts quilt ; History hexie quilt ; Quilted patches ; DIY quilt block -- Visible mending : Simple visible mending ; Larger holes ; Mending knitted things ; Knitted patches -- Stamps and stencils : Street stencils ; T-shirt stenciling ; Potato stamp -- Paste-ups -- Baking : Decorating cakes ; Protest cookies ; Pie tops -- Badges, pins, and brooches : Felt badges and pins ; Polymer clay brooches -- Making for good -- Barter -- Afterword -- Activism library -- [Appendices] : Clipping corners and curves -- How to knit -- How to crochet -- How to cross stitch -- How to back stitch -- Quilting and binding -- Patterns.