Humanitarian handicraft

Claire Barber is Senior Lecturer in Textiles at the University of HuddersfieldHelen Dampier is Reader in Social and Cultural History at Leeds Beckett UniversityRebecca Gill is Reader in Modern History at the University of HuddersfieldBertrand Taithe is Professor of History at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester

• Introduction: the meanings and making of humanitarian handicraft – Claire Barber, Helen Dampier, Rebecca Gill and Bertrand Taithe1 Literary visions of craft and cooperation in the European handmade lace revival, c. 1840–1914 – David Hopkin2 Work of hands: humanitarian craft and fair trade in Britain and Ireland, 1885–1914 – Janice Helland3 Thinking Anglo-American industrial relief through Armenian needlework in the late 1890s: humanitarian marketing ethics, agency and identity – Stéphanie Prévost4 Emily Hobhouse and the Koppies Lace School, 1908–26 – Helen Dampier and Rebecca Gill5 Beyond gratitude. Belgian women, humanitarian organisations and lace-aid programmes in the First World War – Wendy Wiertz6 Threads of friendship: Quaker women, ‘peasant handicrafts’ and educational reconstruction in Russia and Poland, 1916–39 – Siân Roberts7 Politics woven as missionary craft: the carpets of the White Fathers and Sisters from the 1920s – Bertrand Taithe8 Caught in the net: cooperation of lacemakers in the Vologda region, 1880s–1930s – Elizaveta Berezina9 Crafting Communist Paternalism: the voices of lacemakers in Koniaków, Poland, 1947–62 – Nicolette Makovicky10 Humanitarian handicrafts as (dis)empowerment of women ‘left behind’. A Swedish help to self-help project in the Northern Greek village Vlasti, 1963–88 – Maria Småberg11 Humanitarian handicrafts: in conversation – Catherine Bertola, Claire Barber, Helen Dampier, Rebecca Gill and June HillAfterword – Jessica Hemmings