This channel of short subject documentaries aims to create a window into New England Traditional Trades and Heritage Crafter. Living life as a heritage crafter (and there needs to be a bigger word than âcrafterâ as these people are heritage keepers, sustainability promoters, survival hustlers, and dedicated mentors and leaders) means constantly reinventing and recalibrating to survive. Whether thatâs repurposing spaces, using and modifying machines from the 1800s, literally inventing and manufacturing parts, adapting to face and thrive during industry struggles, thereâs a resilience that cannot be defeated.
Heritage Crafts - baskets, blankets, boats, little pieces of embroidery or lace - these are so much more than objects, they are examples of recalibration, innovation, survival.
Go inside the closed shops of Traditional Tradespeople and peer inside the studios of New England's Heritage Crafters.
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