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Artisans are at the heart of the VERA Platform.

You hold valuable knowledge, skills, and traditions that connect culture, history, and creativity.

By sharing practices and stories, you can help keep rural craft heritage alive while also showing how these traditions continue to evolve today.

FEATURED ARTISANS

Therese Henner

Therese works part-time with her own company Sirli Textil och part-time at Klässbols linneväveri (linen weaving) in Värmland. In her company she primarily works with different weaving techniques.

Mark Stockl is a traditional boat builder who restores, repairs, designs and builds traditional timber boats. Based near Ullapool in the highlands of Scotland he has been working on a self-employed basis since 2006 after working at Ullapool Boat Buulders and prior to that completing an intensive, traditional boat building course in Lowestoft, Suffolk.

Anja Musek

Anja Musek, a landscape architect by profession, managed her own business for several years, specializing in garden and park design in Upper Carniola.

María Pérez

Maria has been a master jet artisan for 30 years. She started as a jeweler, but nowadays, working with jet is more important. She works in Asturias.

Anuța Stan

She is a native of Săpânță in Romania, her grandmother introduced her into the practice of weaving at the age of 5, later on when she was 15 she was hired as to work at home within a workers cooperative. She has been weaving within this arrangement for 15 years, and after retiring she continued to supported her family of 3 children alongside her husband.

Monika Hint

Monika Hint, an alumna of the University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy, runs her own studio, Koordikamber, in Koordi farm in Viljandi county, Estonia. Collaborating with fellow artisans, local farmers, and hunters, she uses bone, horn, leather, wool, and other natural, often recycled materials to create products that build on and develop further traditional technologies. Koordikamber also offers courses and workshops.

Yngve Ingebrigtsen

He has the knowledge and skills to build wooden boats. In his daily work he mainly repair wooden, plastic or aluminium boats. He works in Lofoten.

Kristine Thenman

Kristine grew up in Edane. She lived elsewhere for a few years while she studied ceramics and then returned to work with ceramics. She has studied ceramics at art colleges in both Bergen, Norway, and in Gothenburg, as well as at folk high schools. She has her own studio and workshop near her home (walking distance).

Ragnhild Lie

Ragnhild Lie grew up in Gudbrandsdalen and Lillehammer and has knitted, chrochet, braided, sewn and woven since she was little. Ragnhild is educated as textile artisan and holds a MA in Textiles from Bergen school of Art took in 1997. Her broad range of textile-based experience includes fine art, theater and education.

Sam Goates

She developed her craft skills in the workplace and consider the experience of sampling new designs on the handloom; handling a variety of fibres and yarns, experiencing the physical and tactile relationships of woven textiles in parallel with a growing understanding of the various processes of commercial production as fundamental to my developing skills as a woven textile designer.
On returning to Scotland in 2008, and establishing her own mini-micro artisan weaving mill.

Fernández Martínez, Marta

Marta Fernández Martínez was born in the village of Ambás (municipality of Grau/Grado, Asturias) on October 29, 1979. A daughter of a farming family, her childhood unfolded in the rural Asturian environment, contributing to the domestic tasks of a family farm dedicated to dairy production and cheese-making. She studied Forest Engineering at the University of Oviedo, working as such for several years on various forestry and environmental projects throughout Asturias.

González Mesa, Paz

Paz worked for years in public administration for the Government of Asturias and at the University of Oviedo. After training in textile crafts as a weaver, she decided to leave her job to dedicate herself full-time to craftsmanship. She describes herself as a textile artisan, loom weaver, and dyer. Her craft is, to a large extent, her life, and her philosophy embraces a way of living connected to the land and the memory of the Asturian people, far removed from contemporary consumerism.

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