The Team
...and hosting services. You can learn more about them at helloari.com. Online Marketing Social Ordeals Social Ordeals, based in Los Angeles, provides a variety of social media posting and advertising...
Ann Morhauser, The Glass Builder
...wabi-sabi”—the Japanese concept of imperfection, which involves accepting roughness and asymmetry. Once again, Morhauser would not take no for an answer. When she was invited to training for Neiman Marcus...
Additional Honey Resources
...number: 30 22850 73048 Marshall’s Honey Website: https://www.marshallshoney.com/ Email: honey@marshallshoney.com/ Phone: 1-800-624-4637 Zen Rocks, a yoga and pilates retreat center on Mani, Greece’s Tuscan-like finger of Peleponnese peninsulae Website: https://zenrocksmani.com/...
Tips and Inspiration from England’s Great Dixter Gardens
...in isolation surrounded by a sea of bark mulch. A mixed border has a very free, cottagey feel and offers interest from the earliest spring bulbs to the berries and...
Acequias and the Hydraulic Genius of Shari’ah Law
...the Rio Grande and Interstate 25, as opposed to the communities where the Culebra River flows. With the ditch burbling next to him, José explains the ancient practice of dividing...
A Tale of Two Vermouths
...with a penchant for vermouth, points out that freshness in vermouth isn’t what many people think. “The practice from the beginning was to make these wines more robust to withstand...
Try This at Home: A Q&A with Kyle Wiens, Right-to-Repair Crusader
...manual to fix my broken iBook and could not find it anywhere—even though I knew what it looked like and I knew which keywords to search for, because I had...
The Soul of the Italian Shoe
...the shoes of your expectations.” Fantasy and elegance do not have to conflict. Here Daniela’s training in art shows itself in the balance of color, line, and even mass. A...
The Mind of a Cartoonist
...has just unsubscribed from their publication. He drew them standing before her in a rage saying, “No one unsubscribes from FluffyKitty.com.” The cartoon was immediately scooped up by Mankoff. Krimstein...
Women Who Embroider the Air
...place in the pantheon of great crafts. THE SEARCH FOR A MODERN MARKET With Burano lace, it’s impossible to discern a piece taking form in real time. While Paola stitched,...
Straw Bale Building Resources
...multiple reports on aspects of straw bale building, particularly code changes, as well as a free download of the book “Build it with Bales, v.2”, by Matts Myhrman and S.O....
Metalsmith Forges Opportunities for Black Women Artists
...launched We Wield the Hammer in 2019 as a free, 8-week-long metalsmithing training program for Black women and girls, ages 14 to 24. “We are training young women in the...
How handmade shoes are really made
...measuring, the more trustworthy the results. The next step is making the “last,” which is a form made of some kind of hard material that’s shaped to become a three-dimensional...
The World of Cartooning
...of this can be found here: https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/bob-mankoff 2. Here is a “Ted Talk” by Mankoff entitled, “Anatomy of a New Yorker Cartoon” https://www.ted.com/talks/bob_mankoff_anatomy_of_a_new_yorker_cartoon?language=en 3. Here is an online Cartoon Museum...
Is Digital Craftsmanship an Oxymoron?
...see why people react to certain curves differently.” These boundary-free explorations are precisely what Autodesk’s Artists in Residence program was designed to allow. And it has clearly opened up new...
The Norwegian Sweater Detective
...costumes. The oldest of these storehouses date to 1350. Photo of Tradisjonsbygg ved Ose by Anders Martinsen for VisitNorway.com. Ose is marked by a century-old hostelry that still accepts overnight...
The Vanishing Generation of Italian Shoemakers
...bespoke shoemakers in Italy, via a direct, web-based platform. My first step was to search online for Italian shoemakers to create an itinerary for an upcoming trip; I found very...
The Craft of Sustainable Rice Farming
...extreme version of this practice can be seen in Asia, where row after row of rice terraces step down steep mountainsides.) For all of their adventures in niche markets, the...
Breathing Lives into Wood
...is a declaration of who we are,” says Dangeli. “It conveys the idea that we are continuing to practice our ancient ways of knowing and being.” Equally important, he says,...
Back to the Future: IFAM Invests in Sustainable Cultural Traditions
...IFAM’s rising attendance and revenue have shown. This brings up both philosophical and practical questions: Where is folk art going? More immediately, how does an organization like IFAM use rising...
Fountain Pen Resources
...the Edison Pen Co. If you’re looking for an authoritative online pen encyclopedia, this website is for you. Michael Masuyama is based in Los Angeles, where he specializes in restoring...
A Guide to Sources for “The Workforce Dilemma”
...Dwell magazine about Assemblage, the handmade wallpaper business that Heidi and Christian Batteau started in Witter, Arkansas. Workforce training A research study with empirical analysis of trends in employer-paid training....
Why Nothing Writes Like a Fountain Pen
...on Michael Masuyama, an expert at fountain pen restoration. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwsx1FG_2Ns As it happens, Masuyama got his start decades ago at Sailor, a top-notch Japanese pen and ink manufacturer that makes...
An Artisanal Gift Guide
...OSO flameware–the 5 quart Dutch Oven is $200– directly from SaraMcDesign.com. Delivery takes at least 12 weeks, which makes it a little late for Christmas, but any cook lucky enough...
In Your Words: Making Matters, More than Ever
...stories — or tag us to share one of your own! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkLOaC0WDbQ Greg Miller, owner and instructor, The Joy of Wood (Perth, Western Australia) “We lost ALL of our face-to-face...
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The Architecture of Trust
...technology project is Table Tribes, founded by Hosan Lee, a designer and entrepreneur. Table Tribes says it “closes the online + offline gap” by encouraging conversations in real life based...
The Hidden Powers of The Forcola
...in action, see the documentary short below: “The Unique Rowing Methods of The Venetian Gondola.”) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPbpB6k2oKE There are only four artisans in Venice who specialize in making forcolas, along with...
The American Folk School Movement and ‘Slow Economics’
...says. “It allows us to add more professional makers, and to foster professional training for makers and instructors.” U.S.-based folk schools typically adopt a blended mission of culture and commerce,...
Resources for Nordic Sweater Lovers
...(available on YouTube.) For a comprehensive dive into the complexities of Norwegian wool, you can download a 161-page report by the National Institute for Consumer Research English) called “Valuing Norwegian...
Mikkel Aaland
...training videos in collaboration with Lynda.com and Adobe Press. He is the co-host of the Nordic Light International Festival of Photography held every spring in Kristiansund, Norway. His non-technical books...
The Play Gap
...students in underserved schools the most. As time went on, O’Donnell noticed the growing mound of literature supporting the importance of recess, along with other opportunities for free play. The...
Young Champions of Craftsmanship
...she had to practice drawing and painting with her left hand. And she still produced work that impressed her teachers. Photo courtesy of Snow Farm. For one of her projects,...
Folk Art on Steroids
...to children; and weaving to their mothers, who have never had educational opportunities. When the women leave, she says, they are free to say no to marriage, free from becoming...
Could Small Still Be Beautiful?
...farm until his writing caught the notice of John Maynard Keynes, the British economist who launched the 20th century’s activist alternative to unfettered, free-market economics. The core of Schumacher’s argument...
The world of craft beer
...for the Brewers Association. She’s also co-author of the free CraftBeer.com Beer & Food Course, as well as co-author of Beer Pairing. She is a longtime homebrewer, BJCP beer judge...
Write for Us
...also encourage you to do a thorough keyword search to make sure your idea hasn’t already been covered in our extensive archives (or elsewhere). Then, please send a well-developed, three-...
Darianna Videaux Capitel: The Art and Craft of a Cuban Musician
...of 21, she got invited to participate in a training session on instrument repair sponsored by Horns to Havana, a New York-based charity that provided instruments to Cuban schools and...
Spoonism
...became of all those splendid spoons. An eBay search came up empty, and Michael Bierut couldn’t recall much about the Palio designs. Who knows, perhaps other spoon-o-philes walked away with...
The Secret to Vintage Jeans
...such that Cone had to search out even more old Drapers, which it refurbished to bring up to a fleet, just before the plant closed, of 51. In the meantime,...
Brian Boggs, Master of the Chair
...filaments into the air. So, in search of something more natural, he Googled and learned that the strongest plant fiber humans cultivate is linen. Much like carbon fiber, fiberglass, or...
The Great Washing Machine Scam
...up Google, and started looking for outfits with lots of stars under their names.. Call it the appliance industry’s version of greenwashing. Literally. A few wily search terms led me...
Want an Authentic Norwegian Sweater? Here’s How to Find One
...nonprofit Norwegian Folk Art and Crafts Association. Considered the authority on Norwegian handcrafts, Husflidslag runs small stores all over the country that are reliable sources for Norwegian yarn, knitwear, and...
Keeping the Beat: Custom-Made Conducting Batons
...find online for around $10. Custom Batons offers a selection of 11 different woods—from African blackwood to zebrawood—along with their relative weights. (And Blount is continually experimenting with new varieties...
Gary Rogowski
...The Northwest Woodworking Studio, where he is the Director. Classes are now all online at NorthwestWoodworking.com. Gary was a Contributing Editor for Fine Woodworking Magazine for fifteen years and the...
My Day with the Duchess
...between the eyes. The Duchess immediately let out a scream. “Oh God!,” the husband exclaimed, and then was struck silent. “Is there anything I can get you to make things...
What? A Bamboo Bicycle?
...with nature; it’s an instinctive thing. And when you see the frame of a bamboo bike, you immediately understand that we’re combining technology and nature in a direct way.” Bamboo...
Redesigning an Old Recipe: The School Lunch
...2024. It takes people with training in the culinary arts to prepare something that tastes good, and make it nutritious.” When possible, Chef Joan sources her ingredients from trusted local...
Jessica Carew Kraft
...theAtlantic.com, The Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Chronicle, Grist Magazine, Yoga Journal, ARTNews and other publications. See more of her work at www.WritingKraft.com, and follow her on Twitter at @writingkraft....
When Life Handed Her Yarn, Adella Colvin Spun a Bright Future
...closed). But she still craved the richly hued, natural-fiber skeins local yarn shops are known for. So, she plugged into an online community of indie dyers and started making her...
