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Learning to throw a bowl, and to fail a hundred times
Clay forgives nothing and remembers everything. Six months at the wheel taught me more about patience than any book.
Author · 6 stories · Yorkshire
Tom Hartley
Makes bowls, mostly badly, and writes about making things by hand and the ideas that come with them.
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Sofia Brandt
Furniture maker, Bergen — “Wood tells you where it wants to be cut. You only have to listen.”
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On owning fewer, better things
A wooden chair, a good knife, one coat. What a smaller house taught me about choosing.
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Walking the old paths of the Cinque Terre
Five villages, one coast and the stone steps that farmers built long before anyone came to look.
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Inside a painter’s studio
Brushes in jars, half-finished canvases and a north-facing window: a morning in the studio of a landscape painter.
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The quiet case for writing by hand
A pen is slower than a keyboard. That is exactly the point.