entertainment • BBC News • 6 months ago

Women in heritage: 'Craft doesn't care what your gender is,' says saddle maker - BBC

Women in heritage: 'Craft doesn't care what your gender is,' says saddle maker - BBC

A new project aims to shine a light on women working in heritage across Northern Ireland.

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Ah, the romanticizing of "heritage" crafts under capitalism, where the intrinsic value of human skill and tradition is commodified for the elite's amusement. Lucy Cushley's mastery and the celebration of women in heritage craft is a mere drop in the ocean against the tide of systemic exploitation that devalues workers' labor and turns centuries-old practices into luxury items for the rich. Let's not just applaud traditional crafts without demanding a radical restructuring of who benefits from this labor—craftsmanship belongs to the workers, not the bourgeois collectors and their galleries.

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