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Part memoir, part cultural history, A Woven World celebrates the fading crafts, industries, and artisans that have defined communities for generations.

The desire to create is the cornerstone of civilization. But as we move into a world where machine manufacturing has nearly usurped craft, Alison Hawthorne Deming resists the erasure of our shared history of handiwork with this appeal for embracing continuity and belonging in a time of destabilizing change.

Sensing a need to preserve the crafts and stories of our founding communities, and inspired by an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute featuring Yves St. Laurent's "sardine" dress, Deming turned to the industries of her ancestors, both the dressmakers and designers in Manhattan in the nineteenth century and the fishermen on Grand Manan Island, a community of 2,500 residents, where the dignity of work and the bounty of the sea ruled for hundreds of years.

Reweaving the fabric of those lives, A Woven World gives presence on the page to the people, places, and practices, uncovering and preserving a record of the ingenuity and dignity that comes with such work. In this way the lament becomes a song of praise and a testament to the beauty and fragility of human making.

To my husband’s relief, I don’t go in for fancy Valentine’s Day trappings like expensive jewelry or fine dining. (I do, however, appreciate the occasional bottle of single-malt Scotch he gives me.) I celebrate the day in my own eccentric way, by writing Substack posts.

For new readers, here are the previous Valentine’s Day posts:

Yeesh! Stop Pushing Polyamory on Us Already!

How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Romance

How to Tell a True Love Story: The Case against (Some!) Rom-Coms

And while we’re up here in the italicized housekeeping section, an announcement: The Happy Wanderer will be off next week, but stay tuned for the end of February, when we’ll take a look at the most romantic scene ever to appear onscreen.

Henry James’s 1903 novella The Beast in the Jungle tells the tragic story of John Marcher and May Bartram. They first meet when they are in their twenties, and Marcher reveals his deep, dark secret to May: He has “‘the sense of being kept for something rare and strange, possibly prodigious and terrible . . . that would perhaps overwhelm [him]’” (39). They meet again by chance ten years later, and Marcher acknowledges that he is still waiting for his special destiny

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