Culture Vulture: The politics and economics of handcrafted work

The workshop and the exhibition celebrated the production of items as mundane as gardening shears and nails. PHOTOS: LIANHE ZAOBAO
The workshop and the exhibition celebrated the production of items as mundane as gardening shears and nails. PHOTO: LIANHE ZAOBAO
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SINGAPORE - I recently learnt to use a whetstone for the first time.

Actually, there were three whetstones, in graduating degrees of fineness, used in the knife finishing workshop I signed up for at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts.

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