The Indian Arts and Crafts Act of 1990 extends some federal protection to American Indian craft makers.
Craft makers from all over the UK gathered to sell their wares.
Craft makers peddled homemade toys and beaded jewelry under white tents that flapped in the wind.
The Long Island City Flea and Food market opens on Saturday with a variety of vendors, antique sellers, craft makers and more — all with a focus on Queens.
Sunday's market is likely to be larger than usual with more than 70 vendors, from chefs and fishmongers to farmers and craft makers.
Residents from craft makers to tour guides to traditional dancers said it was the busloads of tourists who arrived week after week that kept many families afloat.
New networks of backwoods co-op businesses and community craft makers are taking a giant marketing leap beyond the Appalachian remoteness that long has frozen local economic opportunities.
SINCE the beginning of time, craft makers have transformed clay, sand, fiber, wood, stone and metal into all sorts of ordinary and wondrous objects -- pots, vases, tapestries and necklaces.
A light, generous space with three galleries, theatre, shop and cafe/bar, as well as artists' workshops and studios, it's a great place to get the measure of the island's craft makers, whose work is available to buy in the shop.
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