Crafting Collections between Vernacular and Institutional Practice

This paper is based on ethnographic fieldwork and applies theories of crafting performance to explore how living heritage practices are rethought, reframed, refashioned when traditional dress individual garments moved, reorganized, transformed into a collection following rationales derived from both family tradition museum standards. By one woman’s emerging collections, the study sheds light ways materializing relationships shaping curatorial agency through acts crafting. The aims show deeper understanding vernacular collections may inform institutional practice heritage-making.