Way back in 2005, when we planned the very first Indie Craft Experience in Atlanta, I met Becky Striepe of Glue and Glitter. She participated in our very first market, and I’m honored to say that she has participated in every ICE since then. In fact, weekend after next she will be a vendor at [...]

Song/Craft is an irregular series on music and the handmade movement.
Michael Rucci has spent the past three years designing small electronic devices that can be used to play a very large number of songs. But don’t think for a minute that he’s envious of the iPod. “Because everything’s been so miniaturized. … I’m not sure [...]

Dan Perkins already had the perfect guitar: an ’80s-reissue Fender Telecaster in a faded-out gold-sparkle finish. Now he needed the perfect guitar strap: something to indicate that the prized instrument he’d be wearing across his body wasn’t just for producing sounds, but also for communicating his entire aesthetic. He needed something sharp enough to have [...]

New York’s Fall 2011 Fashion Week has wiped off the mascara and shut off the high bass techno music for the season. While I definitely enjoy the glitz and showmanship of it all, it’s hard not to chuckle when comparing the highfalutin designs to the more wearable, relevant fashions already in motion in the handmade [...]

The craft world is a living, breathing, constantly changing and evolving organism, and there are definitely major trends that course through it’s veins. But my they are tricky. They’ll surface for months only to be stuffed to a storage closet’s backward depths after they’ve reached an arbitrary and unexpected expiration date. What dictates these enigmatic, [...]

Dudes of Craft is a weekly series from Keli Anaya exploring the mysterious world of men who craft.
I failed to mention something in the past couple of posts. Now, there is something that you might not know about me; I LOVE being environmentally friendly. I loathe throwing things away. Recycling is second nature to [...]