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Abstract
Jane Kidd's most recent series of tapestries, Handwork Series: to the bone, in the blood, from the heart (fragments 1–9), explores the role and value of knowledgeable hand-making in an era dominated by mass media, “distributed technologies” and consumer culture. Juxtaposing intricately rendered anatomical images of forearms and/or hands against replicas of historical textiles, her series asserts the importance of skillful hand labor in human ethical, cultural, and neurobiological development. Using a variety of theoretical and cross-cultural concepts deriving from psychoanalysis, linguistics, anthropology and material culture, the author examines this particular series of tapestries, relating them to broader issues currently under debate in craft, particularly textile, practice.