Threading the NeedleCraft and Heritage Development in Postcolonial Morocco\nAuthor(s): Claire Nicholas\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253076441, 978-0253076441\nSynopsis\nFor over a century, French colonial and Moroccan postcolonial state-building efforts have tethered cultural identity to the preservation and \""modernization\"" of artisanal craftwork. Twenty-first-century heritage development initiatives aim to turn the \""traditional\"" know-how of skilled textile producers into \""modern\"" knowledge, reeducating, reorganizing, and reorienting artisans with new markets in mind. But media and development discourses often obscure artisans' own perspectives on their labor, reducing makers and the iconic embroidered and woven textiles they create to romantic stereotypes about \""traditional craft.\""\n\nThreading the Needle seeks to correct these clichs. Drawing on analysis of policy documents and archiv.