At Resole, his little shop in Berkeley, Thomas Wandall crafts finely made bespoke leather shoes and sandals and keeps an ancient art alive.
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Sara Strong continues her family’s woodworking legacy
As a young child, Strong spent Sundays at her grandfather’s side, watching and learning as he worked in his wood shop.
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Potter Sarah Kersten: Ceramic pieces tell stories
“The way a ceramic piece comes into being is a really nice arc,” says the Berkeley potter. “And I think people also love how when the story is finished they can hold and use these things.”
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Mandy Aftel: A world master of artisan perfume
Mandy Aftel in her Berkeley garden. Photo: Melati Citrawireja Mandy Aftel’s love of perfume is all-encompassing. This verve is apparent in her immaculate collection of 19th-century books on perfumery that fill the nooks of her workspace in North Berkeley. Or, in the way she tends to her rose garden — plants carefully chosen and imported from Turkey — the […]
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Alice Rosenthal: Expert beekeeper, swarm catcher
The local beekeeper is an expert in both beekeeping history and the complexities behind how hives function — Rosenthal truly is a bee whisperer.
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A visit with East Bay textile whisperer Amy Keefer
Keefer working on an embroidery project. Photo: Melati Citrawireja This is the fifth article in our series on expert craftspeople in Berkeley, written and photographed by Melati Citrawireja, a summer 2015 photography intern for Berkeleyside. Don’t miss her stories on St. Hieronymus Press, the workspace of David Lance Goines; Klaus-Ullrich Rötzscher and the Pettingell Book Bindery; coppersmith Audel Davis; and […]
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Deepa Natarajan: Ethnobotanist and natural fabric dyer
Deepa and Loka admire their young fig tree. Photo: Melati Citrawireja Deepa picks violas to pound into cloth. Photo: Melati Citrawireja In the fourth part of a series on expert craftspeople in Berkeley, Melati Citrawireja, who was a photography intern with Berkeleyside in summer 2015, visits Deepa Natarajan, a natural fabric dyer and ethnobotanist. (Read Citrawireja’s stories on Klaus-Ullrich […]
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Audel Davis continues the Arts and Crafts tradition through his coppersmithing art
Davis in his workshop. Photo: Melati Citrawireja In the third part of a series on expert craftspeople in Berkeley, Melati Citrawireja, who was a photography intern with Berkeleyside this summer, visits coppersmith Audel Davis. (Read Citrawireja’s first story on Klaus-Ullrich Rötzscher and the Pettingell Book Bindery, and her second on St. Hieronymus Press, the workspace of David Lance Goines.) Audel Davis […]
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A visit with David Goines: Berkeley’s legendary letterpress printer and lithographer
David Goines in his Berkeley workshop. Photo: Melati Citrawireja In the second of a three-part series on expert craftspeople in Berkeley, Melati Citrawireja, a summer 2015 photography intern for Berkeleyside, visits St. Hieronymus Press, the workspace of David Lance Goines. (Read Citrawireja’s first story on Klaus-Ullrich Rötzscher and the Pettingell Book Bindery.) You may recognize David Goines by his distinctive […]
