EAN: 9781783788231

HANDMADE - SIRI HELLE KARTONIERT (TB)

The story of one woman  one chainsaw  and one modest plan for a mini-cabin - a book from Norway
that celebrates the act of making something with your own two hands. Humans have always used
their hands to create the world around them. But now most of us have gone from being
practitioners to theorists  from being producers to consumers. What happens to our society when
we are so divorced from the act of making? What happens to us as individuals when we limit the
uses to which we put our hands? These are questions that preoccupy Siri Helle when she inherits
a cabin of 25 square metres  without electricity  inlet water  or a loo  and decides to build
an outhouse herself. Without any previous experience of building anything  she has to learn on
the job and what she learns is not just about how to lay a floor and construct walls  but about
what she is capable of and about craft and about the satisfactions to be found in making things
by hand. Written with humour and insight Handmadeis the inspiring story of someone who tried to
do it herself - and did.

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