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The makers keeping traditional crafts in motion

Young designers are giving established techniques new use and new audiences.

The makers keeping traditional crafts in motion. Young designers are giving established techniques new use and new audiences.

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Apprentices learn a technique by repeating it, then ask what it can do in a contemporary home or studio. Tradition becomes a working tool rather than a museum object.

Keeping the craft alive also means paying the people who know how to teach it.

Maya Flores
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