Everyone we have filmed, wherever they work. Open a name to see everything made about them.
Weaves tight-coiled baskets. Counts every knot aloud as she works.
Builds and fires large vessels by hand. Digs her own clay from a river bend two hours from the workshop.
Grinds her own pigment from stone and paints on prepared board.
Dyes and weaves in indigo. Keeps four vats going at once, each at a different age.
Carves large figures direct from the log, working without a maquette.
Carves stools and figures from single blocks, without a drawing.
Throws and burnishes blackware taught to her by her father.
Ferments and dyes with natural indigo, burying the cloth twice.
Works leather and silver in the same room, finishing each piece before the next begins.
Blows and slumps glass from local sand, in a workshop she rebuilt herself.
Fires ceramics and glass in a kiln older than she is.
Paints mud cloth with patterns that are read as sentences.
Runs the last bead shop on her street, and still strings by hand.
Weaves aṣọ òkè on a loom that came from her mother. Works alone, from before first light until the middle of the afternoon.
Casts and raises brass and copper using moulds his father cut.
Cuts and prints lino and woodblock. Prints an edition in one sitting or not at all.