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To meet makers from distant lands forum coming up 29 October.

Lessons learned from a duck herder’s gamelan 🎵 Rosie Cook goes in search of the rare Bundengan musical instrument from Indonesia and discovers a melodious revival.
When nomads come to town: Sustaining weaving traditions on the Ladakhi Changthang Plateau Catherine Allie traces the journeys of nomad weavers in remote north-western India, famous for their tsug dul blanket
Dekh Magar Pyaar Say: Meanderings into the sublime Sahr Bashir reflects on the dazzling ride through Lahore by auto-rickshaw
Shyrdak: A sunny day in Kyrgyzstan Dinara Chochunbaeva takes us to Kyrgyzstan on a sunny spring afternoon when the shyrdak felt rugs are on display.
Quarterly Essay ✿ The long and winding Silk Road Christina Sumner goes in search of Central Asian treasures to show the outside world.

Five fingers full of skill: Four artisans from Tajikistan

Ikromi Nigina profiles for Tajik artisans specialising in block-printing, kundal (wall-painting), toy-making and weaving.

By Ikromi Nigina

“Forty hunar are not enough”: Craft and community in Uzbekistan

Learn how Uzbek measure their worth in skills.

By Kevin Murray

Uzbekistan and the promise of apple trees

The glass artist Layla Walter anticipates her travel to Uzbekistan, evoking memories of a childhood garden

By Layla Walter

Finding the spirit of clay in Rajasthan

Serena Rosevear, an exponent of minimal porcelain, encounters the maximal culture of India, thanks to the Crosshatched tour of Sandra Bowkett.

By Serena Rosevear

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Jon Goulder ✿ Furniture with a backstory - The latest Broached Commission is a profound furniture series by Jon Goulder, which expresses the evolution of craft over four generations. We delve into his collaboration with weaver Liz Williamson.

Gunybi Ganambarr ✿ Creative industrial - Aluminium mining has been seen as a threat to Yolŋu culture. In collaboration with Stephen Anthony, Gunybi Ganambarr uses this metal to express core values of his culture.

Polina Matveeva ✿ The girl with a kitten (after da Vinci) - Our October Laurel comes from the town of Gzhel, about an hour's drive from Moscow. Polina Matveeva's work transforms an iconic Renaissance painting into contemporary ceramics.

Art Design Architecture: Jam Factory’s epic series of touring exhibitions - Soon after Brian Parkes started as CEO of Jam Factory in 2010, he initiated an ambitious series of touring exhibitions based on materials which have helped define Australian craft and design in the 21st century

Mongyudowon: South Korea’s craft utopia - The epic craft events in East Asia often take on a utopian theme. This year's Cheongju International Craft Biennale is called Mongyudowon, which is a mythical landscape of idealised and inaccessible beauty.

Ma Luocheng ✿ The craft of “impeachment” - China specialises in miniature carving. This relates to the long tradition of seals, which marked the intricate characters of the author. Here's a glimpse of this tradition today expressed with peach stones.

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