"Each session brings a new theme: one week it's crochet, the next jewellery-making, the week after that they learn latte-art. Coffees are sipped, biscuits are passed around and chatter fills the room. This is the Girls Craft Club, founded earlier this year by art history graduate Gabby after a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder left her feeling isolated. We were all going through life problems, she says. We decided to make something beautiful out of it."
"What may seem like pure nostalgia is, in fact, part of a wider cultural shift. Across the UK, gen Z is embracing hobbies once more associated with their grandparents or great grandparents: crochet and knitting circles, pottery cafes, mahjong nights and supper clubs that echo Come Dine With Me. These slow pastimes are flourishing, not because they are a retro trend being revived, but because they offer something people feel is urgently missing: connection, purpose and respite from digital fatigue."
Young people in the UK are reviving analogue, slow hobbies such as crochet, knitting, pottery and mahjong as communal, affordable, screen-free activities. Local groups meet for themes like crochet, jewellery-making and latte-art, sharing conversation, food and mutual support. The movement offers social connection, purpose and respite from digital fatigue amid lockdown-era isolation, high living costs and extensive doomscrolling. Britain’s teenagers report low life satisfaction, and many who grew up during lockdowns feel an acute need for real-world contact. Slow hobbies provide tangible skills, creative satisfaction and a sense of value for both objects and the people who make them.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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