ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses craft, heritage and gender from a performativity perspective on making. It shows how gender patterns are reflected in the understanding of craft, and in heritage-making. The chapter provides to make visible the gender demarcations in the making of craft. It argues that the making of craft and its heritage status has been highly charged with gender differences. The chapter focuses on performativity and the canon of gender differences, and presents three empirical examples. The first is about organizational aspects of handicraft, the second concerning the technique of crocheting and the third considering visual representations of crafting, using empirical archival and published materials from the Home Craft Movement in Sweden. Empirical studies over time of local branches of the Home Craft Movement in Sweden show that aesthetics is discursive and understood as notions about expressions of art and limits for artistic creation.
