Pottery Art / Handmade pottery workshop
Preserving pottery, a traditional craft of Crete with roots in 7000 BC, while developing it so as to serve the modern decorative and utility needs, Michalis Houlakis is engaged in…
KERAMION
Made with local Cretan earth and “lepida” (a special potter’s earth), with natural pigments from the mountains, polished with pebbles and decorated with a sheep’s wool brush, ceramics inspired by…
Faidon silversmithing workshop
The craft art over centuries Deeply intertwined with the history of our place and rooted back to the years of Byzantium, Silverware was going to define the cultural identity of…
Traditional Craft Center of Ioannina
The Traditional Craft Center of Ioannina is now a reality. In a central part of the city of Ioannina, next to Lake Pamvotida and in a neat area of 10,000…
The Silversmithing Museum
The Silversmithing Museum is located in the castle of Ioannina, and more specifically in the western bastion of the north-eastern acropolis (Its Kale). It occupies the bastion’s two levels, as…
Origins of glassware
The origins of glassware in Vannes-le-Chatel From Past to Present: Celebrating 30 Years of Cerfav's Legacy and Unveiling the Origins of Vannes-le-Châtel Glassworks In 2021, Cerfav celebrates its 30th anniversary.…
Revival of Cretan Textiles
DAWEC, AN INITIATIVE SUPPORTING WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS The Development Association of Women Entrepreneurs of Crete (DAWEC) is a non-profit organization that was founded in 2002 in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. Its main…
Dive into the highlights of 2023!
It all began when a diverse group of professionals, including computer scientists, craft experts, and anthropologists, gathered in March in Heraklion, Crete to kick off the CRAEFT project. Over a…
Save the Date! Live blowtorch on twitch
The Craeft project invites you to join us on the Twitch streaming platform. Take a behind-the-scenes look at the digital recording of blowtorch craft master Frédéric Demoisson’s gestures. The Craeft…
The making of the Bontemps’ carafe
This is a comic created using an ethnography conducted in the context of the Mingei, Horizon 2020 Innovation Action of the European Commission. The documentation regards the glasswork for the…