Glenn Adamson, Knitting as noun AND verb
‘According to Adamson’s account, the concept of craft is organized around ‘material experience’ on the one hand, and ‘skill’ on the other. Indeed skill, as he argues following Pye, may be ‘the most complete embodiment of craft as an active, relational concept rather than a fixed category’. 36 (To put it another way, unlike this word art, the word craft can be used in a sentence as both a noun and a verb.)’(Adamson in Smith, 2014, p xxii)
Smith, T. (2014) Bauhaus weaving theory: from feminine craft to mode of design Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press
‘Knitting is a verb (always) resulting in a noun (sometimes).’
Hemmings, J. (2019) ‘Knitting after making’ in Gilson, J. and Moffatt, N. (2019) Textiles community and controversy: The Knitting Map. London: Bloomsbury pp 77-94
‘According to Adamson’s account, the concept of craft is organized around ‘material experience’ on the one hand, and ‘skill’ on the other. Indeed skill, as he argues following Pye, may be ‘the most complete embodiment of craft as an active, relational concept rather than a fixed category’. 36 (To put it another way, unlike this word art, the word craft can be used in a sentence as both a noun and a verb.)’(Adamson in Smith, 2014, p xxii)
Smith, T. (2014) Bauhaus weaving theory: from feminine craft to mode of design Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press
‘Knitting is a verb (always) resulting in a noun (sometimes).’
Hemmings, J. (2019) ‘Knitting after making’ in Gilson, J. and Moffatt, N. (2019) Textiles community and controversy: The Knitting Map. London: Bloomsbury pp 77-94