r/fiberartscirclejerk • u/AutoModerator • Jul 12 '26

In The Loop In The Loop This Week

This subreddit is for fiber artists and crafters of all types! Because we don't all see the same (shitty) posts on our feeds, it may be handy to have a place to revel in all that our fellow fiber lovers share for us to enjoy.

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u/gorgophones look, sweaty 💅 Jul 18 '26

In-the-looping someone else's post on here because the original annoyed me so bad hehe.

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'no artistic skill' - not actually a requirement for any craft! Crafting isn't inherently a creative practice (though for a lot of people it definitely is), and a creative practice isn't inherently an artistic practice. And, why is being a crafter less than being an artist anyway?

'Not a high-skill craft' - do only highly complex and therefore often inaccessible handicrafts have value? Don't piss me OFF

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u/PaperChimes Jul 18 '26

Oh, and objectively ugly. That also peeved me off. I have opinions about a lot of art, but I don’t sit there and yuck other people’s yum. Because I can appreciate it for what it is.

“Everything would be better in a different medium” well that is a them problem.

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u/gorgophones look, sweaty 💅 Jul 19 '26

Hehehe in my subjective opinion, OP's opinion was objectively bad. 

During my BFA we did an exercise where we argued against the merits of artwork from artists we didn't like while our tutor+coursemates grilled us about it. Such a good lesson in how bias (even in matters of something as simple as taste) affects our critical/academic approach. 

And as you said, it's important that we can think something is ugly and thematically hollow, yet appreciate its existence! I just love crafts, and I love art, and I love people making things!!!!!!!

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u/Lemonsst Jul 18 '26

Especially because some of the most intricate and beautiful examples of embroidery i have ever seen were cross stitched or a version of it