1. The Fabric of
Resistance
Political craft history and
lessons for today’s craft
movement
Rayna Fahey
2. We live, dance, sleep, work,
craft and play on
Aboriginal Land
3. Industrial revolution
• Mass shift from handmade cottage
industries to machine based manufacturing
• End to mutual-aid based subsistence
communities
• Concept of work moved out of homes and
farms and into centralised factories
• Mass unemployment in fabric and textile
based craft industries
4. Luddites
• Direct action movement
• Started with lace and hosiery
workers near Nottingham
• First attacks in 1811
• “Machine breaking” made a
capital crime in 1812
• 17 men executed under this law
• Countless men transported to
Australia