July 2025 Issue: Echoes of Hand

In our debut July 2025 issue, artimnas celebrates the rich, textured world of the handmade.
Echoes of Hand is a tribute to all that is tactile, time-honored, and quietly revolutionary. This issue will explore the hands behind the heritage—craftspeople, artists, designers, and makers who work with material, memory, and meaning.

From handwoven stories and ancestral tools to contemporary craft revivals and reimagined folk aesthetics—this issue delves into the soul of making.

In a time where design often begins with a keystroke, the hand becomes more than a tool—it becomes a statement.

This theme centers on craft as culture, gesture as resistance, and material as memory.

We’re exploring:

• The resurgence of traditional crafts in modern design

• Artists and communities preserving folk legacies

• The politics of handwork and its value in a hyper-digital economy

• Material intelligence—how makers work with clay, fiber, wood, and more

• Contemporary reinterpretations of age-old techniques

• Emotional, embodied design practices

• The hand’s role in slowing down, connecting, and healing

This issue is for the craftspeople and artisans keeping heritage alive with every stitch, stroke, and spin. Whether you’re preserving a centuries-old technique or finding fresh ways to reinvent it, your work bridges the past and present in profoundly tactile ways.

It’s also for designers and studios who let material lead the process—those who explore form through texture, function through tradition, and aesthetics through touch. If your practice embraces slowness, sustainability, or storytelling through objects, you’re speaking the language of this issue.

We’re calling on folk artists, potters, weavers, printmakers, and toolmakers—the ones who shape more than materials. You shape meaning, memory, and identity through every handmade piece.

Educators, researchers, and cultural workers who document or teach about design heritage, material anthropology, or traditional knowledge systems are equally vital to this dialogue. Your insight gives context to the hands that make.

And finally, this issue is for anyone who believes that working with the hand is not just about technique—it’s about intention. It’s for those who see craft as both a personal ritual and a cultural inheritance, who believe that every handmade thing carries the soul of its maker.

We’re currently curating contributors for Echoes of Hand, and we’re looking for voices that can bring depth, detail, and humanity to this conversation around handmade design.

If you’re a maker working with your hands—whether through weaving, carving, dyeing, stitching, molding, or any other tactile process—we’d love to hear your story. Your studio, your process, your inspirations, and your challenges are all part of what makes your work meaningful. We’re especially interested in hearing from artisans who are reinterpreting traditional techniques in contemporary ways, or those preserving rare, region-specific crafts with a strong sense of cultural grounding.

We also welcome essays, reflections, or personal narratives—especially if you’ve inherited your craft through generations, work closely with a specific community, or use your practice as a form of activism, healing, or connection. If your work navigates the politics of making—whether it’s about material access, climate, sustainability, or cultural ownership—your perspective matters.

In addition to written contributions, we’re collecting visual content that captures your process: studio spaces, tools, hands at work, material experiments, or finished pieces. We’re not just documenting what you make—we want to tell the story behind how and why you make.

We’ll send each contributor a thoughtfully tailored questionnaire designed specifically around your practice and the theme of this issue. It’s not a form letter—it’s a creative collaboration. Your responses and visuals will form the basis of an editorial feature crafted with care.

If this sounds like you—or like someone you know—we encourage you to get in touch. We’re also open to recommendations or introductions within your community.