Meet our artisans! Basket makers, weavers, jewelers. You name the craft. We’ve got it all on NC Handmade. Browse artisans currently working in North Carolina. Then you’ll find that perfect handcrafted piece you can cherish for generations.
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Cindy Long
This weaver from High Country creates unique woven pieces with the yarns coming from mills in the Carolinas.
Frumet Raskin-Miller
This potter from Durham gets fired up making work for food-lovers and fiber artists — all out of her small home studio, her “garagio.”
Julie Ottesen
Skilled at the rare art of Nantucketry, this renowned basket-maker hand-carved handles and caning, drawing directly from nature.
Karen Casey and Arlen Custer
Karen Casey and Arlen Custer have been making fused glass jewelry, hair accessories, vases, and dishes out of their Durham studio for more than 15 years.
Linda Dease Smith
This Blowing Rock fiber artist is up to the challenge of repurposing and upcycling any fabric she gets her hands on.
Marilyn Yvonne Gore
Charlotte quilter Marilyn Yvonne Gore is dedicated to the art and preservation of quilts that represent African American culture and history.
Mike Anderson
Mike Anderson, better known as “fiddlemakermike” has been making fiddles for over 20 years. A woodworker since childhood, he has an exuberant love music and passion to create.
Pam Washer
This sewist from Blowing Rock creates one-of-a-kind handbags using repurposed materials — all on her 1958 Singer Featherweight sewing machine.
Sheridan Watkins
Sheridan Watkins Shairpins, Winston Salem, North Carolina Think about your most lightweight pair of earrings…these are probably lighter than that! All earrings are made from