The Industrial Revolution estranged us from materials — Anni Albers said so in 1937. A Cambridge University study of 400,000 people shows the psychological damage still measurable in former industrial populations today. The European Crafts Alliance, Frontiers in Public Health, and five longitudinal cohort studies now confirm the return to skilled hand-based practice is not nostalgia. It is a measurable health intervention. CWA is building the infrastructure to make that return systematic.
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