Ways to travel
Craft & Making
The hand, still at work.
Around the world
Rare moments.
Kyoto · Japan
Gold in the cracks
A kintsugi master mends a broken bowl with lacquer and gold.
Fez · Morocco
The tile cutters
Zellij struck by hand, set into walls without a drawing.
Bagru · India
Indigo and wood
Block-printers lift cloth from the vat, as they have for three centuries.
Murano · Italy
Glass at dawn
A furnace lit before sunrise; a vase drawn from fire.
Sacred Valley · Peru
The backstrap loom
Weavers set rivers and stars into alpaca, colour gathered on the mountain.
Dalarna · Sweden
Wood, wool and winter
Carvers and weavers of the north, by the light of a long evening.