About Your Craft

This page enables you to display information about the craft skills you offer. If you work in a single medium the page simply displays details of your craft. If you work in more than one medium, the page initially displays an index showing a synopsis for each. Clicking on an individual entry name will display the full details.

Glass Blowing

Glassblowing is the process of forming glass into useful shapes while the glass is in a molten, semi-liquid state. A person who blows glass is called a glassblower, glasssmith, or gaffer. While the first evidence of man-made glass occurs in Mesopotamia in the Late-Third/Early-Second Millennium B.C., the actual "blowing" of glass using a tube did not occur until sometime in the First century BC in Roman Syria. Glassblowing is a form of art that requires extreme training and an intense... Read More

Origami

Origami (Japanese: oru, to fold, and kami, paper lit. "folding paper") is the art of paper folding. The goal of this art is to create a given result using geometric folds and crease patterns. Origami refers to all types of paper folding, even those of non-Japanese origin. Origami only uses a small number of different folds, but they can be combined in a variety of ways to make intricate designs. In general, these designs begin with a square sheet of paper, whose sides may be different... Read More