Underlaying patterns of structure in the natural world. In the image patterns arise from the nodes of  standing waves on a vibrating plate.

Ernst Chladni (1756-1827)
 German musician and scientist, known as 'the father of acoustics,' Using a brass plate and violin...

Making furniture for David Linley at the Mark Asplin Whiteley workshop in Whitby.

Having spent the last 10 years in Cornwall working mostly alone on my own designs, I’ve been thinking back and remembering what it was like being part of one of the biggest luxury furnitur...

J B Blunk

It is hard to know where to place Blunk as a craftsman. Though he has achieved his primary success as a woodworker, he has also created an extensive body of work in clay, carved stone and cast bronze and has even made jewelry and weavings. Furthermore, he ten...

 A story about craft, with a bit of mythology, magic, science and modern culture.

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When encountering something for the first time, people reasonably ask, what word can we give this, how do we categorise it?  Which label is most appropriate? In short, how can we frame it? This cutting off the interconnected extensions, is what the mind is good at and...