Even if my mailbox overfloweth, I still like to look through a good newstand now and then for new-to-me periodicals.  This weekend browsing at Issues off Piedmont Ave. in Oakland I discovered Issue 1(!) of Hole & Corner, an oversized British magazine about “craft, beauty, passion and skill”—with heavy emphasis on skill.

H & C is filled with artful images of tools and profiles of real-life cheesemakers, cobblers and lady tailors.  The text includes words like “bedsit” and “pensioner” and other Britishisms that are vaguely familiar but charmingly foreign. There’s a tour through a Straw Museum. Need I say more?

Billed as an antidote to publications that are all about style with little substance, Hole & Corner is, as defined, a place to get lost in.