Category: artisan

Beauty and the Blade: Meet the Knife-Maker Transforming Discarded Farm Tools Into Beautiful, Bespoke Knives

April 22, 2022
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In deep rural Vermont, there’s a handbuilt post-and-beam house made of boards chiseled by hand from logs hauled out of the woods by a man and a horse. Attached to the house is a carpenter’s workshop and a blacksmith’s shop. It was in these workshops that, as a child, Chelsea Miller watched her father do…

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Believing in America

June 29, 2021
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Back in 1992, artist José-María Cundín, originally from the Basque Country, Spain, released a hand-engraved facsimile of the United States Declaration of Independence, after three years of hard work and collaboration with craftsmen from his homeland—a papermaker and a renowned metal engraver. But the project didn’t draw broader interest from the American public. Sara Fattori,…

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