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The Making Of With DUNSIN CRAFT ; A digital presentation for Woven Threads VII: CRAFTED

The work is rooted in a practice of making that centres craft as both knowledge and labour. It is built on skill developed over time, where technique is not treated as decoration, but as the foundation of the work itself. Each piece reflects a direct engagement with material, where the hand, the tool, and the process remain visible and essential. At the centre of Dunsin Craft is a commitment to process-led making. The work does not begin from a fixed outcome. It develops through handling, adjustment, and repetition. Craft is treated as a continuous act, where form is shaped through attention, patience, and control. The value of the work sits in how it is made as much as in what is made. The presentation reflects this approach through a close focus on the act of making. It moves through the studio and the spaces of production, showing how each stage builds into the next. You see the labour involved, the rhythm of the work, and the decisions that guide each piece into form. What emerges is not a detached final product, but a process that remains present in the outcome. There is a clear relationship between maker and material. The work is not distanced from its source. Each piece carries the trace of the hand, the technique, and the time required to produce it. This establishes a continuity between process and result, where nothing is separate from how it was made. Woven Threads 'CRAFTED' centres how materials are understood, how garments are made, and how systems of production are sustained within a circular framework. Dunsin Craft contributes to this through its emphasis on skill, material engagement, and the sustained practice of craft as a system of production.