Come watch, experience, listen, admire, learn, try and most of all: make! With international workshops, demonstrations, and master classes the Craft in Focus Festival is thé event on master craftsmanship. With Industry City as the perfect venue…

Enhancing a closer relationship between people and trees…

“I want to explore learning as a design approach” Exploring parallels between the basketry technique of coiling and 3D printing…

A special collaboration with Harmen Brethouwer. We are working on a serie of finely woven willow cones…

are awards given to young craftspeople – artists, craftsmen, and designers who are age 50 or younger – who work in fields related to KOGEI (artisan crafts). Proud to be one of the award winning finalists…

A fresh and innovative approach to this old and dusty craft results…

Craft is never out of fashion…

The art of tapestries has without any doubt a marvelous narrative purpose. Until today the fine craft related to textile enabled us to understand parts of our history…

I have woven a willow skeinwork hat before, but fashion designer Asha Swillens asked me to make two hats with 1.25m diameter…

In 2004 I started as a traditional basketmaker working with willow rods…

Matmatic innovates the craft of traditional hand caning of chairs…

At the department Men & Well Being, lead by Ilse Crawford, I gave a series of workshops…

I am a specialist in fine skeinwork, a very labor intensive and almost extinct basketry technique…

Craft starts with attention for the past…

Looking beyond the borders of my traditional craft…