The Spring/Summer 2025 issue highlights the training, processes, and circumstances of handicraft—the craft of craft. 

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Articles explore how traditional crafts often emerge from necessity and evolve into cultural symbols—such as Canadian hooked rugs—and offer a rich look at how process shapes both objects and their makers. A profile of historical costumer Kelly Arlene Grant highlights the pleasures of rediscovering lost activities and finding community while connecting to the past. Writer John Leroux spotlights the the 1970s Opus craft village in New Brunswick, while Isolda Gavidia examines the impact of education and training in her institutional history of the École des beaux-arts de Québec.