Rebecca Gill is a Reader in Modern History at the University of Huddersfield

Wendy Wiertz is Lecturer of Applied Arts, Design and Material Culture at Utrecht University

Introduction: Craft in extremis – Rebecca Gill and Wendy Wiertz

Part I Rehabilitation, reconstruction and representation
1 ‘We’re not men now’: design as pathos at the Lord Roberts Memorial Workshops – Joseph McBrinn
2 Racial dynamics of craft therapy: Lewis Hine’s Chelsea Naval Hospital photographs for the American Red Cross – Jennifer Way
3 ‘Curative exercises in crafts’: The League of New Hampshire Craftsmen in the Second World War – Sarah Parrish

Part II Makers, markets and enterprise
4 (Re)crafting identity in humanitarian industries for and by Ottoman Armenians (1890s–1910s): What about economic viability? – Yasar Tolga Cora and Stéphanie Prévost
5 ‘Buyers in many foreign countries appreciate Chinese embroidery’: needlework as charity and commerce in the Shanghai International Red Cross Industrial Homes – Rachel Silberstein
6 Armenian ceramics of Jerusalem: Refugees and orphans in the reconstitution of an Ottoman art – Sato Moughalian
7 Jewish women’s crafting identities in the Russian Empire and in the early Soviet Union: change in a changing environment – Tetiana Perga

Part III Cultural, physical and emotional survival
8 Upcycling scarce resources in the Nazi camp universe – Margaret C. Mariani and Robert M. Ehrenreich
9 The Foehrenwald Seder Plate: craft and the promise of rehabilitation for Jewish displaced persons, 1945–51 – Alida R. Jekabson
War lace: Craft, connotations, and cultural nationalism – Wendy Wiertz