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The creative entrepreneur
Politics and production in the early nineteenth century
Mr. Peaceable Paints
Creative pilgrimage
Colonial craftsmen
Martha Inc
The ancient art of appliqué
Marune
Armenian Folk Arts, Culture, and Identity:
Colonial jobs
Living Treasures of Japan
Obliging need
Open studios with Lotta Jansdotter
Artist Beware
Crafting new traditions
Travelling brothers
Craftsman in Greek and Roman society
Made In France
Mind and hand
The traveler's guide to American crafts west of the Mississippi
Careers inside the world of the trades
Southern makers
The republic of labor
The early Colombian labor movement
Handmade nation
Made by hand
A stash of one's own
The first American revolution
Artisans and machinery
Early American craftsmen
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