{"product_id":"the-last-basket-makers-from-risa","title":"The Last Basket Makers from Risa","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"elementToProof\"\u003eFrom a local tradition coming out of a small historical world to a tradition involved in a vast queer-worlding of making, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cs\u003eLast Basket\u003c\/s\u003e Makers from Risa\u003c\/i\u003e refers to a lineage of artisans producing the enigmatic Hedared basket—from Lennart, the basket’s first ‘last maker’—to Lennart’s great-grandson, Fadhel Mourali. This is his report on an open-ended process of identifying and crafting the material of kinship.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eCrafty, personal, and entangled with tradition, Fadhel’s research and own making share stories out of and surrounding the rural community of Risa—the former home of his great-grandfather. Here, a dialogical and productive patchwork unfolds, exploring tradition, evolution, and adaptation. This process—akin to queering—includes expected and unexpected entanglements of care and rooting.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAdditional texts help put this process into perspective. Textile artist Raisa Kabir, author Tanya Harrod, lecturer Helena Hansson and curator Marcia Harvey Isaksson shed light on cross-cultural dynamics, queering, kinship and more.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhilst I am vastly separated from the living conditions of my Swedish great-grandfather, growing up as a queer person with a mixed cultural heritage, in a working-class environment, the recurrent need to conform, find meaning and belonging has continued to colour my desire to make. Through my great-grandfather’s lived experience as an artisan, I have sought to decipher tradition in the context of my primary culture: the Swedish. Throughout this book, I have strived to explore its most dominant traits as it filters through a new type of lived experience: my own. Instead of the felt tensions between my multiple cultures being put against each other, they could merge as part of this storytelling. As the outward manifestation of an ever-evolving, internal contemplation, craft continues to be the process through which I make sense of the world—a process that continuously seeks to reflect the creation of a space in which to exist and belong. \u003c\/em\u003e– Fadhel Mourali\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e320 pages, 12 x 19 cm, softcover, Set Margins (Eindhoven).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Handcrafted Modern","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42866158796913,"sku":"PER-007","price":72.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0594\/9675\/9409\/files\/the-last-basket-makers-from-risa-1.jpg?v=1766029173","url":"https:\/\/shop.handcraftedmodern.co\/products\/the-last-basket-makers-from-risa","provider":"Handcrafted Modern","version":"1.0","type":"link"}