Lucy Siegel’s obsession with salvaging vintage leather goods began at the swap shop at the transfer station in Wellfleet. There, four years ago, browsing with her sister, she found an […]
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COOK’S KITCHEN
The Meditative Practice of Sharpening a Knife
Simple tools and patience are building blocks of a skill worth learning
At first, the idea of sharpening your own knives seems intimidating, even a little mysterious — the kind of thing that’s “only for pros.” And it’s true that chefs’ relationships […]
WOODCRAFT
Rob Scott Carves Out a Place in Folk Art Tradition
In his winter studio, a craftsman conjures a summer’s worth of sea creatures
Woodcarver Rob Scott’s winter studio on Conwell Street in Provincetown is like an extension of the hardware store next door — if a Carhartt-enthused Geppetto fascinated by saltwater aquariums were […]
FLAMES
The Year of Saffron, Violet, and Coconut
Two Provincetown candlemakers calibrate the sweet scents of 2024
My friend Livi Bois made a beeline for the stand at the back of the Canteen craft market like a scent hound on the trail of its prey, leaving her […]
MEET THE MAKER
A Blade Is His Canvas
Hanu Salm forges a connection to cooks and to his family’s craft
Hanu Salm and his father, Rolf Pechukas, just finished building a small workshop behind the Wellfleet house of Salm’s grandmother, Diana Gisolfi. It’s a temporary setup for Salm. He would […]
MEET THE MAKER
A Seeker Finds His Way With Clay
The tides inspire Steve Kemp’s pottery projects
Photos by Robert S Johnson When Steve Kemp, who set up his Orleans pottery studio 45 years ago, first started working with clay, he asked Harry Holl to be his […]
MEET THE MAKER
Violinmaker Henni Hahn Is in It for the Sound
In the woods of South Wellfleet, a luthier figures things out
WELLFLEET — Henrike Hahn likes figuring things out. At the moment, she is figuring out how to repair a small handmade French violin with a broken scroll. The violin, looking […]
WOODCRAFT
Gaige Clark’s Carved Spoons Hold Plenty of Personality
Fallen wood, whittled and burnished, for cooks and for looks
PROVINCETOWN — Several customers have told Gaige Clark that her hand-carved wooden spoons are too beautiful to use. When someone tells her they’re going to hang a spoon on the […]
THE THREAD
Craft Becomes Art in Gretchen Romey-Tanzer’s Weaving Studio
A room full of looms is classroom, workshop, and gallery
BREWSTER — Eight big floor looms stand in various stages of use in Gretchen Romey-Tanzer’s studio. The walls are lined with vibrant spools of wool and cotton and with the […]
MEET THE MAKER
In an Eastham Workshop, Garments Whose Elegance Goes Beyond Fashion
Teodora Ficca turns buckskins into bikinis, ceremonial dresses, and everything in between
EASTHAM — Teodora Ficca’s studio and shop are one and the same space. Her leatherworking tools hang on pegs across the window behind her workbench. “I need to organize,” she […]
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Bob Korn Knows When the Light Is Right
A printmaker who still believes ‘a photograph is not a photograph until it’s a print’
EASTHAM — Bob Korn’s long career spans the seismic shift from analog to digital photography. But through seemingly endless changes in technology, he remains committed to the importance of the […]
MEET THE MAKER
Wellfleet’s Builder of Wooden Boats
After 40 years and one last sportfishing vessel, Walter Baron wants to build smaller
WELLFLEET — Walter Baron estimates he has built some 180 wooden boats, ranging in size from small rowboats to his largest, a 35-foot shallow-draft sailing boat from a custom design […]
MEET THE MAKERS
Building Bouquets Out of Space, Movement, and Color
In a local studio, flower arranging is an art that starts with ‘what nature gives us’
Danielle Sargent and Julia Lund, owners of Honeybee Bouquets, are preparing for their busiest holiday. The two met waitressing at Mac’s Shack, an experience that has proved surprisingly helpful when […]
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Paul Suggs Gives the Old Lobster Hutt’s ‘Tweet’ a Face-Lift
In those days, ‘you could just do stuff like that’
WELLFLEET — Before there was a Mac’s Shack, which is to say before there was butter-poached lobster on fresh corn risotto, there was the Bayside Lobster Hutt. It was Joe […]
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A Past in Puppetry Shapes an Artist’s New Works
For Ed Christie, dryer lint lends itself to characters a person can relate to
Ed Christie’s career lending life to fabric started when he was five years old. And he had a following: kids from his Elmont, N.Y. neighborhood would flock to the puppet […]
