a wearable recording device for capturing handwork

Elena Corchero

'HandMade is a wearable recording device that captures what one does with their hands from a first-person perspective. Recordings made with HandMade allow audience members to immerse themselves more deeply into the shoes of artists or craft-makers than is possible in typical TV documentaries. Recordings can also be keepsakes, allowing users to capture ordinary moments or special techniques together with stories that can be shared with family and friends in the far future.'

http://www.distancelab.org/projects/handmade/

'timing stitches and making time'

Innovative Craft Blog

http://www.innovativecraft.co.uk/index.php/about/ic_blog/

look at this

www.nathanvincent.com

i have been thinking of the 'dangers of sewing and knitting' again recently and remembered the notebook of visitors personal dangers from the exhibition in 2005 so i thought i should post a few

job is sewn up

'a worker furious after being denied promotion for five years has sewn his lips together in protest. Water company labourer Jose Alberto Celis used a needle and thread to put five stitches in his lip in front of his boss in varacruz, Mexico. He claimed he had received' unfulfilled promises'.

stitched lips
http://www.reuters.com/article/wtMostRead/idUSN2436073120071025
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3458823.stm
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/refugee-camp-children-sew-their-lips-in-protest-664504.html

this could possibly be an addition to 'dangers of sewing and knitting' the sequel ...http://www.craftscotland.org/dangersofknittingreview.html