Another friend of mine, a schoolteacher, in her free time, she does handicrafts, creating decorations from ready-made beads and accessories. Previously, she "brought to mind" ready-made jewelry bought for herself, but once the familiar owner of the wedding dresses atelier asked Katya to make a custom-made bridal necklace: there is a dress, but there is no suitable costume jewelry. Katya quickly coped with the order, was terribly proud of the result and, as she said, was involved: she found the sites of like-minded people, she started spreading photos of her creations on the Internet, receiving orders. Earnings are trifling, the reason for Katya's hobby is quite different: the first order coincided with the divorce, so she used the needlework for a whole year to "dispel", go away from depression. When the period of adaptation has passed, interest in beads is also almost extinguished - so, occasionally, if an interesting model suddenly catches your eye or someone from your friends asks.
About 30 years ago, women in the USSR were forced to become handyman of all trades: they knit, sewed, baked, marinated, weaved the napkin-macrame and made curtains on the kitchen door from the fishing line and rolls of colored paper (remember this masterpiece?) In the 90s, things have migrated to the category of cheap stuff, contemptuously referred to as "samopalom". And now the 21st century is in the yard, supermarkets and boutiques are at our disposal, and for some reason we again rushed to work. Yes, yes, they rushed! It is enough to enter the Network and type in "handmade" to get links to thousands of sites: video master classes, forums, stores where you can buy materials for handicrafts - making your own products and ready-made works of authorship. In October 2009, the first "Hobby Fest" hobby festival took place in Kiev, where about 10 master classes were devoted to everything that is done by hands: from drawing to knitting with beads. In December, another festival, the Book World, which organizers included in the program, in addition to the usual near-literary events, several unexpected master classes: paperwork, book art (hand-made books), book illustrations, calligraphy. The main feature of the current mass passion for manual work is the absolute voluntariness and unforcedness of these occupations. After all, you can buy anything (in extreme cases, abroad or on the Internet), and things made by themselves, are not always cheaper than ready. For example, lovers of the filter, or feltinga, and simply - felting out of wool, acquire for their hobby doroguschuyu New Zealand wool and special needles. Sets for the manufacture of toys (with patterns, fabrics and accessories) are more expensive than finished products. Of course, you can wag from cheap wool, and make toys from shreds, pulling patterns from the web. Most do it. But in any case, the meaning of such a hobby is definitely not in economy. And in what?
Universal Fashion Soldiers
The most obvious explanation is fatigue from stamped public goods. Even designer evening dresses are sometimes found on the red carpet in duplicate, to the annoyance of their owners. What can we say about factory products. Handicrafts - making products with their own hands, is enjoying increasing popularity among young people. Using things that come off the assembly line, we lose our uniqueness, we begin to feel like universal soldiers, robots.
The person after all also differs from the robot imperfection. Embroidering a towel or tying a sock, we, even if we try, can not repeat the model exactly. The mood has changed, and now the thread has laid down differently. Why are natural stones valued higher than artificial stones? Cracks, irregularities in color, interspersed insects - all this distinguishes one stone from another, my ring from yours, and hence me from you. "
In addition, that the finished things depersonalize - they are also "cold", "soulless." The car assembled on the conveyor line looks perfect and works perfectly, but you can not say who made it. It contains the impersonal labor of thousands of people. "At the beginning of the 20th century, the product of labor separated from man. Before, people personally grew vegetables, made furniture, and toed shoes. The master conceived a knife and carried out the plan. Now one person is drawing a drawing, the other is a technical task, hundreds of people are grinding out details ... and in the end the author of the idea is very loosely connected with the result of its implementation. From the initial idea there is not much left, besides it takes a long time until the finished product appears. And it is important for people to see the immediate result of their work, because it is their own embodiment, realization, and handicrafts - making products with their own hands is much simpler than simple.
Today we are surrounded by many things, the principle of which we do not understand: TV, mobile phone, microwave oven. Machines become bigger, smarter than ourselves. Misunderstanding gives rise to anxiety, a feeling of discomfort. Therefore, man seeks to bring the product closer to himself, to return to naturalness, at least in part. Creating something with our own hands, we seem to transfer things to a particle of ourselves, our soul. And we get immense pleasure from the process of the birth of our child ".
One doll = 3 chocolates
In the West, handicrafts are valued long ago, foreigners have always admired our napkins and knitted blouses, which are created thanks to handicrafts - making products with our own hands: "Oh, it's a hand-maid!" That's understandable - because the West did not have to endure a long period of general deficit, and, as a consequence, a maniacal love of Italian boots, jeans Levis and other "firm".
Many fashionable types of needlework came to us from there - mainly from the USA. The local housewives, on the one hand, are attached to the house by children, on the other - before we were released from tedious domestic work thanks to a variety of drying-washer-whiskers. The remaining time they spend creatively. For example, make beautiful family "memorable" photo albums (scrapbooking), greeting cards (kardmey-king), toys.
Insanely popular all over the world are books by Norwegians Tone Finnanger, who came up with a special kind of interior dolls in primitive style - angels, ballerinas, different little animals with recognizable muzzles. All of them are called "tildes" - by the name of the first doll, released from the hands of Tone. Finnanher's franken's books on making toys and decorating the interior were not translated into Russian, but local tildomanks posted them on the Web and even partially translated. American and European women sew these dolls from special fabrics and paint with special paints of Tilda brand, and ours are refined in ingenuity: they paint cheap tea with tea or coffee, instead of paints they use cosmetics. And such tildes come out - a feast!
Another fashion hobby - soap making or writing of author's spirits. To do this, no special talents are needed, it is enough to master the technology and apply a little imagination. Chips from baby soap, milk, glycerin, honey, herbal tinctures, cocoa, chocolate, a little patience - and you can arrange an antistress therapy session in the bathroom using your own products, smelling like a confectionery store. With the spirits that make up the essential oils, of course, it is more difficult, and not the fact that something sensible will turn out, but the main thing is not the result, but the process.
From one only reading endless sites dedicated to hand-maid, drooling. And try to go to the goods store for needlework! A certain scrapbooking master admits in her blog that she recently audited the stocks and with great regret made sure that she did not need to buy any ribbons, paper, sparkles and flowers for the next hundred years.
Handicrafts - making products with their own hands, constitutes a happy exception to the rule that says: "Anything that is pleasant - either illegal, or immoral, or causes obesity." Making one doll replaces three chocolates, I know from my own experience. So one more obvious reason for the craze for needlework is the global financial crisis, which requires an inexpensive and effective method of getting rid of anxiety.
The stars are also knit
Needlework - manufacturing of products by oneself, of course, is not a universal trend. There are people who absolutely do not want to do something with their hands, there are also those who consider this to be a senseless and stupid exercise. "Colleagues in the accounting department are all knitting, because, they say, it's so cheap to put on the whole family. Why, for the time spent on knitting, these women do not master the international system of accounts management, do not learn English? Then they will start earning three times as much! "However, firstly, as already mentioned, savings are almost never the true motive of needlewomen. Secondly, needlework does not impede success. Elena Khanga embroider, actress Elena Valyushkina (Maria from the "Formula of Love") paints furniture and makes figures from beads. Natalia Gundareva adored knitting. There are among the famous needlewomen and men: Alex Petrenko makes furniture. Even Hollywood celestials are engaged in needlework, from which you do not expect anything like this. Eva Herzigova from plasticine makes sculptures. And Orlando Bloom, in between the shoots, sits behind a potter's wheel and sculpts pots.