The Craft(y) Revival: Community and Knowledge-Sharing in Textile-based Crafts is a thesis exhibition and curatorial paper that celebrates contemporary modes of knowledge-sharing between textile-craft practitioners, while also connecting contemporary practices to earlier models of knowledge-sharing and community within the discipline. In the twenty-first century, with the widespread adoption of the internet and the rise of social media, the manner in which knowledge has been shared has evolved to crafters' needs and reshaped their process in creating.

Including work by artists Lizz Aston, Amy Bagshaw, and Sarah Zanchetta, in addition to community participants, this thesis explores the contemporary role of online networks as a method of fostering community in textile-based crafts, with a focus on North America. I look to earlier moments of communal practice, and particularly feminist and queer community in fibre art histories, identifying parallels and divergences between contemporary textile-based craft communities and previous such communities. In this thesis, I hope to reveal the potential of online community and knowledge-sharing methods in the current revival of craft and DIY practices, highlighting the contribution of communal knowledge-sharing methods and the resulting production of community.