An internet aesthetic and subculture built around a romanticized rural domestic life: baking bread from scratch, growing a kitchen garden, making meals from nothing store-bought, and furnishing a home with secondhand, vintage or hand-built pieces. It reads as a response to the economic pressure young people faced online, prizing sustainability, agrarianism and slow living over acquisition and speed. Popular hobbies inside the aesthetic lean directly on the home atlas's own crafts: quilting, knitting and crochet all recur as cottagecore's working, not merely decorative, pastimes. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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OriginBefore the aesthetic was named in 2018, the nineteenth century Arts and Crafts movement had already embraced folk styles and techniques as a critique of industrial production, a named antecedent cottagecore draws on. 1 OriginFirst named on Tumblr in 2018; interest surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, when cottagecore posts on Tumblr rose 150 percent between March and May 2020. 1 FAQs
Where did the cottagecore aesthetic come from?
It was first named on Tumblr in 2018 and surged during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cottagecore was first named on Tumblr in 2018. Interest surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, when cottagecore posts on Tumblr rose 150 percent between March and May 2020. The aesthetic centers on a romanticized rural domestic life such as baking bread from scratch, growing a kitchen garden, and furnishing a home with secondhand or hand-built pieces, and it leans directly on hobby crafts such as quilting, knitting and crochet as working, not merely decorative, pastimes.
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Home baking is one of the central practices associated with the Cottagecore aesthetic, alongside gardening and other domestic crafts.
Cottagecore's own source names crochet alongside quilting and knitting as one of its central working pastimes.
Additional Source Cottagecore (Wikipedia)Crafts section
Gardening, especially cottage-style flower and kitchen gardening, is one of the central practices associated with the Cottagecore aesthetic.
Cottagecore's own source names knitting alongside quilting and crochet as one of its central working pastimes.
Additional Source Cottagecore (Wikipedia)Crafts section
Source Cottagecore (Wikipedia)
Cottagecore's romanticized rural imagery draws directly on the older cottage garden ideal.
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1. Cottagecore (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundationen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottagecore
an internet aesthetic and subculture centred on rural way of life... was first named on Tumblr in 2018
Antecedents and cultural context section
The Arts and Crafts movement of the nineteenth century was an approach to art, architecture, and design that embraced 'folk' styles and techniques as a critique of industrial production.
Associated With: Knitting, Crafts section
Popular hobbies are often related to self-sufficiency including quilting, knitting and crochet.
Associated With: Crochet, Crafts section
Popular hobbies are often related to self-sufficiency including quilting, knitting and crochet.
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Know Your MemeOrigin section, entry on the April 25 2018 gardengnomeprince postQuote, Origin section, entry on the April 25 2018 gardengnomeprince post
On April 25th, 2018, Tumblr user gardengnomeprince uploaded the earliest known moodboard post referencing cottagecore
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