Arts & Crafts, Traditional Films (Northeast)

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Weaver

Featuring, Margaret Carr, a well-known figure in the upstate New York weaving community

Tinker

John Forshee was born about 1883 and died in 1974 at Cincinnatus, NY. He was a third generation tinsmith and he was filmed in 1973, using his grandfather's patented tinsmithing…

One Big Union

Ralph Fasanella was born on Labor Day, 1914 in New York\'s Little Italy neighborhood to Joe the Iceman and Ginevre the Buttonhole Maker from Bari, Italy. His rough childhood among…

Onondaga

An Onondaga father and son make lacrosse sticks in the traditional way.

Smithy

Delbert Smith, 88, a hereditary blacksmith, illuminates life around the forge.

Pioneer Axe

This is a short film made by Peter Vogt in 1965 about axe making in Oakland, Maine. It documents the process of creating fine axes in the Emerson Stevens shop -- the last axe…

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