West of Hollywood, acquiring stuff for craft (7)
I believe the answer is:
macrame
'craft' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'west of hollywood acquiring stuff' is the wordplay.
'west of hollywood' becomes 'mae' (I've seen this in another clue).
'acquiring' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'stuff' becomes 'cram' (cramming is a kind of stuffing).
'mae' placed around 'cram' is 'MACRAME'.
'for' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for macrame that I've seen before include "Ornamental work of knotted cord" , "Art using knotted cord" , "knotty work!" , "Decorative craft of knotting string" , "ropy work" .)