(Photo by Free People) Dear five or so subscribers and future readers, I am working on a piece about the importance of buying handmade and how it can be, in this increasingly dehumanized and mechanical world, understood as a radical act, a very powerful act. In this piece I will link our ancient prehistory with the always-with-us, deeply inherent need to create and to see the seasons of things from seed to fruition and onward and how the mass production of most of the things we use and need has rendered our once treasures to worthless trash and how that is taking a huge toll on our mental health and our very souls. But, until that is finished, I offer you a tutorial I found that teaches you how to do a herringbone braid because I absolutely love them. In the next post, I will be the Sarah Connor of crafts, saving the world from the evil machines, but while we wait for the redeemer- braids! Braids and Braids and braids. Girls been doing it since the beginning.
