"There is a common rule in most state regulations that you cannot market, design or advertise in any way that may appeal to children," says Dustin Iannotti, cofounder and creative director of Artisans on Fire, a Las Vegas-based "cannabis-centric" marketing agency.
Visitors can tour at least 12 of the factories by appointment to watch artisans molding, decorating, firing and glazing tableware, figurines and other ornamental objects, then shop at factory outlets where prices are a third to a half those in America.
Whether it's artisan, vegan-friendly pizza at Fire in the Hole, West Country raclette from Eat Bristol or hand-made elderflower cordial from the Festival Elderflower Company, there is something for just about every palate.
Royal Tichelaar Makkum's artisans cringed when they were told to fire her 1997 B-Set pottery (right) at too high a temperature, while Nymphenburg's worried that her 2004 Sketches plates looked half-finished.
Today, more than a quarter of the population are post-Katrina transplants, and their desires are clearly reflected in the wood-fire-oven pizzerias, craft-cocktail bars, artisan bakeries, and authentic taquerias that now proliferate in the city.
If you get there for 10.30am, you can watch the artisans dive into the smoky chamber above an open fire and pull out rods hung with golden-smoked herrings, the so-called "Bornholmers".
In China, on the other hand, crossbow development emphasized rapidity of fire rather than power; by the 16th century, Chinese artisans were making sophisticated lever-actuated rapid-fire crossbows that carried up to 10 bolts in a self-contained magazine.
To make any ceramic, from a dinner plate to a toughened drill bit, engineers and artisans now have to mix powders, press them into molds, and fire them in furnaces.
Seven terrorists entered the Holey Artisan, a bakery famous for its bagels and coffee, at 8 00 pm and opened fire indiscriminately, killing two police officers, Salauddin, and Rabiul Islam, who tried to stop them.
Others accepted Islam because their employment in industrial and artisan work would, according to Zoroastrian dogma, make them impure as their work involved defiling fire.
