What do we really understand about the stuff we own, what does it mean to us and what would the world look like if everybody started to buy less and make more? Writer and occasional knife-maker Tim Hayward meets the crafts people and repairers who are challenging themselves and others to think harder about the things they buy, use and throw away. How has consumerism warped our relationship with the objects we use everyday and how would our lives be different if we understood how stuff was made? Barnaby Carder, aka Barn the Spoon, is a green woodworker and “spoon …
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