Susan Easton is only a few days from a four-month trip overseas—from Nepal to Abu Dhabi to India and then back to Nepal—but you’d never guess it from her remarkable calm. (more…)

As 2015 approaches, we’re taking a look back at 2014 with a few of our favorite artisans, through the modern visual diary that is Instagram. This week, Lena Skadegard shares her year in review—beginning in Paris, with an engagement, and including her sublime pieces for DARA. (more…)

 “There’s such a universe and history of textiles in India that it is pretty impossible to invent anything—so I won’t take credit,” says textile designer Cristina Gitti, founder of the Matta line of accessories and apparel. “When I discover things I like, I always think: Would this work in my world?” (more…)

“It’s so easy to come up with a million excuses why you can’t do something,” says potter Marité Acosta, (more…)

It’s in the critical moment of creation—potter’s wheel spinning, clay transforming rapidly between her hands—that Mirena Kim recognizes the unique demands of her craft. (more…)

Simon Alcantara rediscovers an old favorite—and shares it with us at DARA. (more…)

“We all work together,” says designer Lena Skadegard, who has, for a decade, labored alongside a family of Indian artisans in Delhi on her jewelry of uncommon, color-rich beauty. (more…)

Khadi & Co. founder and textile designer Bess Nielsen first traveled to India in the 1970s, on a trip that would forever change the course of her work and her life.

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Slow design is at the core of the Global Girls brand, which seeks to preserve indigenous crafts—even if that means production proceeds at the pace of the handmade, one careful stitch or embellishment at a time. (more…)

When jewelry designer Melissa Joy Manning started to look for a workshop and showroom in New York City, she knew she wanted a space that would feel genuinely reflective of her brand (more…)