Crafting Anatomies

This anthology poses a critical, creative, stimulating and timely challenge to textile designers, makers and consumers in the 21st century It is essential reading for students and researchers. Crafting Anatomies provokes, probes and gets inside the tensions that often exist when individuals cross disciplinary boundaries but emerge the richer in all aspects of practice. Crafting methodologies and reflective analysis are celebrated as a form of material intelligence through a series of case studies, archives, exhibition reviews, collaborative science based labs and studios, examining in detail the archived body, the body in dialogue and the fabricated body. Great stuff. * Janis Jefferies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK * Crafting Anatomies is a welcome addition to the discourse surrounding the relationship between skin, body and fashion. The editors have successfully brought together an interesting variety of different voices in order to form a stimulating and satisfying bridge between the archive and future technologies. * Lesley Millar, University of the Creative Arts, UK * Crafting Anatomies pushes the reader to think about what a body is, what it can do, how it can adapt, and how fashion and textiles supply creative ways to explore such lines of inquiry; and for such reasons, the book should serve as inspiration to those familiar with multidisciplinary methodologies and those looking to challenge the margins of their fields. * Journal of Dress History *