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For the Love of Lace: A Look into London’s Anti-Capitalist DIY Communities
In the city, you’re on a constant conveyor belt of manufacturing and output, but lace, in its very essence, provides an escapism from money… KEEP READING
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They want to escape the echo chamber that algorithms have strong-armed us into. To clean their palette, if you will. They’d rather meet in the physical realm than on zoom. They want to get to know each other and this city. For real.
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The absence of monetary value to lacemaking is ‘liberating’. Amelia, from London Lace Club says: ‘in the city you’re on a constant conveyor belt of manufacturing and output, but lace, in its very essence, provides an escapism from money and capitalism’…