
Sean-Henry Fitzsimons
Knitwear specialist and Teaching and Learning Coordinator at London College of Fashion (UAL), working across craft and digital textiles.
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Sep 16, 2026
Crafting in the Age of AI
6:46
15:49

Alexa PullmanHOST
But I think there's something that, Jean-Henri, you probably can come in on because I think you had a really wonderful contemporary example of how appreciation of craft, artisanism and making needs to be preserved and what steps are taken at the moment.
7:05
Yeah, so my idea around is like recognition, like cultural, technical, all that comes from our communities, our makers, our people around us, our educators, our technicians.
7:17
And with that being Irish, there's a lot of fun things happening in Ireland at the minute.
7:28
So in the Inishmain Islands in Ireland is where the Iron Jumper existed.
7:33
And when it was industrialized and became a cable net jumper across the world, it was a really interesting like spoke because everybody didn't realize actually the history behind it.
8 MINS LATER

Alexa PullmanHOST
I think, Jean-Henri, you can probably talk about this from a knitter's perspective really well.
