Artisanal traditions, maker culture, and the handmade.
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Speyside Cooperage in Craigellachie, Scotland, repairs and assembles roughly one hundred and fifty thousand casks every year, making it the largest working cooperage in the world.
Catherine Avery · 2024-12-18
Terrazzo, the composite flooring of marble or stone chips set in a binder and ground to a polished surface, has experienced remarkable revival after decades of institutional association.
Sebastian Cole · 2024-12-17
In Hauterives in the Drome department of southeastern France, Jean-Pierre Marchand operates the last traditional saddlery in the Rhone Valley.
Daniel Hurst · 2024-12-17
In early March, when Vermont daytime temperatures rise above freezing while nights remain below, sugar maples begin pumping sap from roots to branches.
Catherine Avery · 2024-12-16
In 1936, Frank Lloyd Wright designed a modest house for Herbert Jacobs in Madison, Wisconsin, costing five thousand five hundred dollars.
Thomas Nakamura · 2024-12-16
The saddle stitch uses two needles passing through the same hole from opposite directions.
Daniel Hurst · 2024-12-15
At Taylor's Eye Witness in Sheffield, a drop forge stamps a blade blank from high-carbon steel with several hundred tons of force.
William Ashford · 2024-12-15
The Nantucket lightship basket, woven on a wooden mould from rattan, has been produced since the 1850s when lightship crews passed long watches by weaving.
Marcus Wei · 2024-12-14
At the Amalfi Paper Mill on Italy's coast, a vatman dips a mould and deckle into cotton rag pulp.
James Alderton · 2024-12-14
In the Partagas factory on Calle Industria in Havana, a torcedor assembles a Lusitania double corona from five different tobacco leaves.
James Alderton · 2024-12-13
At the Leica factory in Wetzlar, optical glass blanks from Schott AG are transformed into precision lenses through grinding, polishing, centring, and coating operations taking up to three months per element.
James Alderton · 2024-12-13
A handmade ceramic bowl by a skilled potter costs perhaps forty pounds.
Marcus Wei · 2024-12-12
At the Red Wing Heritage repair shop in Red Wing, Minnesota, a pair of Iron Rangers arrives with soles worn through.
William Ashford · 2024-12-12
At a London studio, a gather of molten glass at eleven hundred degrees glows orange-white on a blowpipe.
Thomas Nakamura · 2024-12-11
The perfume organ at Givaudan's training school in Grasse holds approximately six hundred bottles arranged by olfactory family.
Thomas Nakamura · 2024-12-11
A bespoke suit from Savile Row requires between fifty and eighty hours of hand labour across cutter, coat maker, trouser maker, and finishers.
Sebastian Cole · 2024-12-10
In Portugal's Alentejo region, cork bark harvesting occurs during a six-week summer window.
William Ashford · 2024-12-10
At the Rendenbach tannery in Trier, Germany, cowhides are tanned in oak bark extract pits for fourteen months.
Sebastian Cole · 2024-12-09
At Anita Porchet's atelier in Lausanne, the world's most celebrated enamel painter applies mineral pigments to a coin-sized watch dial under a microscope.
Thomas Nakamura · 2024-12-09
A new pair of raw selvedge denim is stiff, dark, and unforgiving.
Thomas Nakamura · 2024-12-08