Features 21 essays and critical commentaries by acclaimed Canadian practitioners, educators and curators, demonstrating the range of critical thought about craft as presented in symposiums, exhibition catalogues and art journals. This volume explores the conceptual, social and cultural significance of craft practice.

The diversity of contemporary craft practice is well-represented in essays by Mireille Perron, Shannon Stratton, Glenn Allison and others, whose thoughtful analyses raise challenging questions about craft practice today. This volume substantiates academic advancement of craft curricula and provides an authoritative springboard for debate and discussion among craft practitioners, educators, curators and collectors.

Craft and the Semiotics of Pattern: A Feminist Perspective
Lisa Samphire: Bending the Bullseye
Ancient Affections: Paul Mathieu's Making China in China
Flowers and Leaves: Constructing Nature
Getting Things Done: On Needlecraft &
Free Time
The Art of Camouflage, A Female Touch: Exploring tactility in the work of Janice Wright Cheney, Barb Hunt and Sarah Maloney
Stardale: A Success Story
Thinking Textile
How to Knit an Academic Paper
Rules of Grammar or Childish Babble?: Interpreting Ornament and Meaning in the Context of Modernity
Immaterial beauty
But is it (ceramic) Art? Ceramics and the "Problem" with Jean-Pierre Larocque's Exhibition at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art
Louise Perrone's Museum
Sara Washbush: The Parting Glass
Vancouver Sculpture: Craft Concepts
John Macnab: Between Centres
Sarah Link's Drift
Christina Mayr: Focus on the Vessel
How Long is a Piece of String?