learning by hand
as part of my Maker Membership work i have been trying to consider some ideas around Learning by Hand which i could cope with - i'm currently working with an even more foggy brain than usual due to a recent cycling accident and subsequent injuries - so i'm hoping that this will give the little grey cells something to help them get back into the swing i started a brainstorm/mindmap and quickly homed in on the idea of Handbooks as instructional textbooks (inspired by Joanne's exploration of a needlework textbook), and what we can tell about people's manual skills by looking at their hands - Sherlock Holmes saw hands as an open book, revealing important clues about people's lives - those two areas that led me to the idea of creating a hand-book of hand outlines (prompted by Susan's multiple, Katano shibori hands) which would display some of the features resulting from people's lives and hand-skills - the changes and adaptations to the hands of artisans which re...
