HandMade in America Sourcebook - Handcrafted Architectural Elements

HandMade in America’s Sourcebook Handcrafted Architectural Elements, subtitled A Collection of WNC Craftspeople and Their Original Works, springs from HandMade’s mission of creating awareness for craft artists living and working in the mountains of North Carolina. All told, there are close to 70 craft artists listed, in a loose-leaf, binder-held collection of individual profiles and images of installed work. “The functional idea for this guide,” says Betty Hurst, project leader at HandMade, “is to give architects and contractors an easy way to affix these pages directly onto concept boards for new spaces.” The five major categories of craft within the volume are clay, glass, metal, wood and mixed media and, whether the end product is wall tiles, ceramic friezes, traditional metal work, Mission-style cabinetry or stained glass windows, all of it shares the common ground of originating in the mountains, often near a stream or forested hillside or at the confluence of a community of artists. Development and printing of the Sourcebook has been made possible in part by grants from the North Carolina Department of Commerce, the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Asheville Area Merchants Fund of the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina.

A Sourcebook of Handcrafted Home Furnishings and Design Elements will be published in November 2007 and the web-based Handcrafted Design Source is available online now.

For information about receiving a copy of the Sourcebook, individually priced at $45/copy (plus $6 shipping and handling), please call HandMade in America at 828-252-0121 or respond through our website. Each of North Carolina’s roughly 400 architectural firms may request a complimentary copy, free of charge - we request a donation of $6.00 to offset the shipping costs.