The second issue of Berg’s Journal of Modern Craft is now out. The first issue is still available free as a sample copy online.

Articles

• Looking Backwards and Forwards: Fennomane Furniture Design in Finland around 1900 by Ashby, Charlotte
• The Silver Hand: Authenticating the Alaska Native Art, Craft and Body by Moore, Emily
• Dis/Cover/ing the Quilts of Gee’s Bend, Alabama by Chave, Anna C.
• Between the Material World and the Ghosts of Dreams: An Argument about Craft in Los Carpinteros by Weiss, Rachel

Statement of Practice

• Knitting is … by Gschwandtner, Sabrina

Primary Text

• Commentary by Hub, Berthold
• The Chair (1899) by Bahr, Hermann

Exhibition Reviews

• Women’s Work: WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution by Buszek, Maria Elena
• Out of the Ordinary: Spectacular Craft by Margetts, Martina
• Poetics of the Handmade by Sbrissa, Claudia

Book Reviews

• British and Irish Home Arts and Industries, 1880-1914: Marketing Craft, Making Fashion by Crawford, Alan
• Craft in Transition by Sandino, Linda