08 January 2007

An interesting study of craftspeople at RIT

I did some research on facebook. I'm not sure how many people are in the RIT network, but this is where I did this searches. It could easily have thousands or tens of thousands of people. Here is the number of people who list the following as their interests (of course, not everyone interested lists it, and some people lie, so there's plenty of errors). Keep in mind as well that RIT has a large art/crafts program (many of those in knitting or crochet were in other majors, however).

Weaving: 7 (the majority of these listed it as underwater basketweaving, thus they do not count)
Crochet/Crocheting: 26
Knitting: 73
Needlepoint: 2
Sewing: 43
Textiles: 2

As a random aside, it would appear that one of my neighbors now has an accordion....

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You have to admit, underwater basketweaving has to be pretty cool with mermaids and seaweed (and there are lots of varieties of seaweed.)

Anonymous said...

People lie?!?!?!

(like rugs)